Cigar Extra: S&S 2015 by Tatuaje

• Only available as part of Saints & Sinners Club membership
• Gifted by a friend

Background

Tatuaje Cigars has a very devoted following…so much so that brand owner, Pete Johnson, put together the Saints & Sinners Club for the most devoted of them a few years back. I considered joining when it first came around, but couldn’t scrounge together the cash…and haven’t been able to since, really. But I have a friend (surprising, but true!) who is a member and he recently gifted me a S&S 2015 cigar from his stash.

I don’t always write about gifted cigars, but I felt like this might be a good time to do so. I could find no notes online about what the makeup of this cigar is, but I feel pretty confident in saying that it’s Nicaraguan filler and binder, made in the My Father factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. If I had to guess as to wrapper, based on the smoking experience, I think it’s a Mexican San Andres Maduro. There is also no size information available, but it seems like a Churchill-esque size with a slightly torpedo tip (no point, just tapering to rounded).

Notes

The wrapper was a dark chocolate brown and had a distinctly earthy aroma to it. The prelight draw had notes of earth and baker’s cocoa

Lit up, the S&S 2015 had more earthiness than anything else, but there was a slight chocolatey sweetness in the mix and a bit of a vegetal note, as well.

The vegetal note went away pretty quickly, leaving earth and semi-sweet chocolate notes. I do believe this is a Mexican wrapper, but it’s amazing how far even the My Father factory has come with Mexican leaf in the last few years. Where before it always struck me as very bitter and chalky, this has a subtle sweetness that I really enjoy. I believe this is a result of longer aging of the leaf, but I guess it could just be my evolving palate.

I paired this cigar with some E.H. Taylor Bourbon, which was even sweeter on the palate than the cigar was.

This was the second full-bodied Tatuaje I paired with the Taylor in as many days…both were excellent pairings.

The Tatuaje S&S 2015 was a very good cigar. More please!