Tatuaje Black Private Reserve 20th Anniversary Torpedo (6.12×52)

Summary

Pete Johnson made this cigar for himself first. That is the whole origin story of the Tatuaje Black Label: a personal reserve blend that Johnson would hand out at events and to friends, a Nicaraguan puro built around Sun-Grown Criollo leaf that he kept for himself because it was too good to sell. Word traveled the way good cigars always make word travel, and by 2011 demand forced it into regular production. Now in 2026 the Black Label is marking 20 years, still rolled by the García family at My Father Cigars in Estelí, still a 100% Nicaraguan puro, still wearing that distinctively rustic Sun-Grown Criollo wrapper in a Colorado Oscuro shade that looks rough and delivers refined.

The Torpedo is the most focused format in the lineup: a 6 1/8 x 52 tubo that tapers to a point and concentrates the blend through a precision cut, giving the cedar, leather, earth, black pepper, and building natural sweetness of this cigar a sharpness and complexity that the rounded vitolas express differently. Full in body, long in finish, and constructed by a factory that has been rolling Pete Johnson's cigars for two decades without missing a beat. Twenty to a black cedar box. This one started as a secret. It has been one of the best-kept open secrets in the industry ever since.