Tatuaje Goes To Honduras

[JohnS]

If you're in the cigar business, increasingly it seems that Honduras is a good place to venture nowadays...

Tatuaje Goes To Honduras

 Oct 29, 2025 - By Gregory Mottola 

Photos/Tatuaje

Earlier this year, My Father Cigars released its first Honduran brand, My Father Blue. Now, it’s Tatuaje’s turn. The new Tatuaje Series P Honduras, which is made by My Father Cigars in Honduras, is on its way to retailers now.

The Tatuaje brand and the Garcia family (owners of My Father Cigars) have been inextricably linked since Tatuaje came onto the cigar scene more than 20 years ago. The very first Tatuajes were made in Miami by a then-unknown cigarmaker named José “Pepín” Garcia. His small factory in Little Havana was called El Rey de Los Habanos. Since then, both companies have become among the most recognizable names in cigar-smoking circles, and the Garcias have rolled every cigar bearing the Tatuaje name. El Rey de Los Habanos expanded to Nicaragua and became My Father Cigars (makers of Cigar Aficionado’s 2024 Cigar of the Year). Naturally, Tatuaje expanded alongside My Father, which continues to produce cigars for Tatuaje in Nicaragua, Miami and now, Honduras. 

Casually referred to as the “Tatuaje White Label,” Series P was introduced in 2011 as a “Cuban sandwich,” a handmade cigar of medium- and long-filler tobacco. (Long-filler cigars are made with essentially unbroken leaves of tobacco, while short-filler cigars are made with chopped tobacco, typically the leftovers from handmade cigar production. Medium filler lies somewhere in between—larger than the small, quick-burning scraps of short filler, but not quite the intact, long-filler tobacco of premium cigars.) It was intended to be a less-expensive alternative to Tatuaje’s pricier long-filler lines. 

Series P Honduras serves the same purpose and is made in much the same way—medium and long filler from Honduras with a Nicaraguan Habano-seed wrapper. The new brand is produced in Honduras at the My Father Cigars Honduras factory. All the Honduran tobacco in Series P Honduras was grown by the Garcias.  

Series P Honduras comes in the same three sizes as the original line—Robusto, Toro and Short Robusto, as well as a new size, Short Toro. Because the cigars are not completely made of long filler, the suggested retail prices are considerably less expensive than those of typical premium cigars: Robusto, 5 inches by 50 ring gauge ($4.50); Toro, 6 by 50 ($4.75); Short Robusto, 4 1/2 by 52 ($4.25); and Short Toro, 5 1/2 by 52 ($4.75). Every size comes in a 20-count box.

Source: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/tatuaje-goes-to-honduras

[Hoosh]

If these Tats are using the MF Blue “scraps,” I’m in for a treat when my box arrives! 

[JDoughty]

Those were pretty good in 2011. I have at least one of the original release cigars left, questionable how good it would be now but it's fun to keep a bit of cigar history around. 

[ElLoboLoco]

Honduran cigars on 🔥 

[El Presidente]

4 hours ago, ElLoboLoco said:

Honduran cigars on 🔥 

Nic Tariffs are scaring the bejesus out of the cigar industry. 

[ElLoboLoco]

9 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Nic Tariffs are scaring the bejesus out of the cigar industry. 

No doubt, but to me it’s been on a bit before the tariffs. It feels like cigar aficionados are grasping the balance and elegance of the Honduran leaf. Hondurans were very popular with the Cuban legacy brands way back when, I don’t think they knew how to work with it as elegantly back then as Fabrica 5 and the pepins are starting to dial in.

The Nic tariffs are potentially a HUGE impact.

[helix]

Honduran coffee is some of the best also.