Tatuaje has begun shipping a variety of new cigars, including three new items for its Cojonú Series and a new cigar for L’Atelier’s Surrogates brand.
There are two new Cojonú 2012 cigars, which means there are now five different versions of the Cojonú 2012, each of which is offered in a 6 1/2 x 52 box-pressed toro extra. The two new ones are Cojonú 2012 Tuxtla—which uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper—and Cojonú 2012, which uses a Nicaraguan habano wrapper. Like the other Cojonú 2012 cigars, they use a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan fillers and the cigars are rolled at My Father Cigars S.A. in Nicaragua.
Regardless of the wrapper—there’s also Cojonú 2012 Capa Especial, Habano and Reserva—the cigars have an MSRP of $13 and are typically sold in boxes of 21.
An exception to the 21-count boxes is also one of the new items shipping to stores: Cojonú Two 12’s 2nd Edition.
This release is a throwback to the original Cojonú 2012 packaging. The first nationwide shipment of Cojonú 2012 was a 24-count box that contained 12 Cojonú 2012 Capa Especials—which uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper—and 12 Cojonú Reservas—which use a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper. Towards the end of 2012, Tatuaje introduced a more standard 25-count box for both cigars, though it’s been phased out in favor of the 21-count boxes used today. For the two new-for-2024 wrapper options, the book packaging is back.
The Cojonú Two 12’s 2nd Edition contains 12 Cojonú Corojo and 12 Cojonú Tuxtla cigars. Each box has an MSRP of $312.
In order to receive the Cojonú Two 12’s 2nd Edition boxes, retailers were required to place orders for one set—one 21-count box each of the five different blends—to purchase one of the 24-count boxes, though retailers were capped at ordering no more than five of the 24-count boxes.
Finally, the Surrogates Closing Time is heading to stores. It’s a 6 x 50 toro that uses a Nicaraguan corojo 99 shade-grown wrapper covering an internal mix of tobaccos sourced from Nicaragua, Mexico and the U.S. Each cigar has an MSRP of $10 and it is sold in boxes of 20 cigars. Closing Time is also made at My Father Cigars S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua.
This particular cigar was a favorite of Dan Welsh, co-founder of L’Atelier Imports, who liked to smoke this cigar before going to bed. L’Atelier was once run as a separate company from Tatuaje, though that changed and now L’Atelier is part of Tatuaje.