Tatuaje Cigars / My Father – La Union – For My Father

By Tony Casas | November 25, 2024

As the holidays move in and the year comes to a close I was do my best to find gaps in plans and weather to bring a few more reviews before 2024 wraps up. This week I am taking a look at a very special cigar. La Union by Tatuaje for My Father.

The Good Stuff:

Tatuaje and My Father cigars have been working together for 20 years. To celebrate this partnership the two created four very special releases. There are two separate humidors being released. The Black Humidor which features a blend by Pete Johnson of Tatuaje and Jaime Garcia of My Father Cigars was released earlier this year with the second set, the Red Humidor being released in 2025. Narrowing it down a bit further today we are focusing on the cigar from the Black Humidor created by Pete Johnson of Tatuaje. The La Union for My Father features a Nicaraguan Corojo 99 wrapper over Nicaraguan binders and fillers. The cigar comes in a single 7 1/4 x 50 format. The La Union comes packaged in boxes of 40, 20 of each cigar which runs $2,400 per box, or $60 per cigar. I purchased mine over from our friends at Cuenca Cigars.

• Size: 7 1/4 x 50
• Wrapper: Nicaraguan Corojo 99
• Binder: Nicaraguan
• Filler: Nicaraguan
• Body: Medium/Full
• Strength: Medium/Full
• Price: $60

Prelight:

The La Union by Tatuaje for My Father starts out with a very consistent yellow-tinted light brown wrapper. The wrapper’s texture is very smooth with lots of oils coating it. The wrapper feels a bit thin and brittle while the rest of the cigar feels very hard, very dense, and very tightly compacted. There are a few very minor veins running through the cigar’s long body leading from the cigar’s covered foot up to the double-wrapped cap. The cigar features a very extravagant, very complex, very large band with gold, peach, brown and black which carries the “La Union” crest as well as Tatuaje and My Father’s logos. There is a secondary band which dictates “For My Father” which distinguishes the two cigars as well as an additional peach ribbon on the bottom.

The wrapper on the La Union by Tatuaje for My Father gives off mostly cashew and honey aromas while the foot of the cigar is very earthy with a lightly creamed coffee note that really stands out. The cap cut clean and easily using my Xikar XO double bladed cutter. The cold draw is very earthy and nutty with just a bit of a tart coffee aftertaste.

First Third:

The La Union by Tatuaje for My Father Starts out with with a surprisingly potent black pepper punch which really sticks around for a while. After the pepper begins the fade the cigar releases a ton of earthy flavors over caramel and cashew with lighter notes of creamed coffee and a cedar finish. Despite the cigar being packed so tightly the draw is flawless as it releases huge amounts of thick, gray smoke with each and every puff. The burn line is dead even and razor thin leaving behind a trail of tightly compacted white and light gray ash which held on for about an inch before falling into my ashtray.

Second Third:

The body really starts to ramp up in the second third of the La Union by Tatuaje for My Father. The cedar and earthy flavors are still dominating backed by cashew, espresso, and oat with a soft spice on the finish. The retorhale brings a ton of the spice to the front and I don’t find myself doing it too often. I’m almost an hour in and barely finishing out this second third which left me with a decent nicotine kick already.

Finish:

Into the final third of the La Union by Tatuaje for My Father and the flavors haven’t changed up too much. Mostly led by cedar, cashew, and earthiness backed by espresso, pine, and a bit of saltiness mixed with nut and spicy aftertaste. This is a big cigar, and took me a little more than two hours to take down to the nub. I experienced no heat, nor sap, however there was a bit of wrapper breakages around the cap that didn’t interfere with the experience in anyway. This could likely be due to the weather we are having and how wet to dry my lips became during this smoke. I did close out with a decent nicotine kick, however that evolved over time since this was such an extended smoking experience.

Overview:

The La Union by Tatuaje for My Father Is a special cigar and warrants a special occasion. While my special occasion is being alive, the cigar still delivered an exceptional experience. The flavor profile was great, and to honest something a bit different than you’d expect from Tatuaje. Instead, it seemed like this was a cigar that Pete Johnson blended specifically for a My Father profile which is EXACTLY how it’s presented. The price is steep, and I don’t expect to keep these on hand. But if I am looking for a cigar to celebrate with friends, or any special occasion this will absolutely be a contender.