My Father & Tatuaje La Union – My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) – Double Corona (7.25 x 50)
My Father & Tatuaje La Union – My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) – Double Corona (7.25 x 50)
The Particulars
| wdt_created_by | cigarkey | brand | cigarname | vitola | strength | wrapper | binder | filler | infused | sweettip | origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mcclossm | My Father & Tatuaje La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) - Double Corona (7.25 x 50) | My Father & Tatuaje | La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) | Double Corona - 7.25" × 50 | Medium - Full | Connecticut Broadleaf, Natural | Nicaragua | Nicaragua | No | No | My Father Cigars S.A., Nicaragua |
| COMPANY / BRAND: | My Father & Tatuaje |
| CIGAR: | La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) |
| VITOLA: | Double Corona - 7.25" × 50 |
| STRENGTH: | Medium - Full |
| WRAPPER: | Connecticut Broadleaf, Natural |
| BINDER: | Nicaragua |
| FILLER: | Nicaragua |
| INFUSED: | No |
| SWEET TIP: | No |
| ORIGIN: | My Father Cigars S.A., Nicaragua |
Prolegomenon and Other Random Thoughts
I’m sure most people already know that Tatuaje and My Father work together closely, as the My Father factory has been producing most, if not all, of the Tatuaje lineup since Tatuaje was founded back in 2003. Tatuaje was even My Father’s first private label customer. What you might not know is that Pete Johnson of Tatuaje is married to Janny Garcia of My Father. If you aren’t familiar with Janny, you absolutely should be. She’s a powerhouse in the My Father organization as their Vice President and the daughter of Don “Pepin” Garcia. So obviously, the two brands have an incredibly strong relationship, and the La Union project feels like a very natural extension of that. The La Union logo is actually a drawing of Pete Johnson and Jaime Garcia shaking hands, with the hand of Don Pepin Garcia blessing the partnership.
But I’ll be honest, this is a seriously confusing release to keep straight. There are two different pairs of cigars offered in two different humidors, making for four unique blends in total. The Black humidor was the first release from 2024, and the Red humidor was the second release from 2025. For the matched pair from each humidor, one cigar is a Tatuaje blend “for My Father” and the other is a My Father blend “Para Tatuaje,” but all the cigars are made at the My Father factory and heavily feature tobaccos from the Garcia family farms.
While they’re technically Double Coronas sporting a 109-style bullet cap, My Father is officially calling the vitola a “Prominente Especial.” The Tatuaje cigars also feature a closed foot that the My Father cigars don’t have. And if you need any more help keeping them straight, the Black humidor cigars have a reddish-orange foot band, while the Red humidor cigars have a yellow foot band.
But shit, these bad boys are expensive. MSRP is $60 EACH, which means it’s $120 for a pair since most retailers are not selling them individually. I get why they’re doing it, because if one blend is 🔥while the other is 💩 they’ll get stuck with half a humidor of a very expensive cigar. And to really appreciate the concept of “La Union” you need to try both cigars. So these blends need to be absolutely memorable, because that is a hell of a buy-in.
And you might be noticing, I only have 3 of the 4 cigars here. Well, Small Batch Cigar’s $75 club (which I doubled up on at the time) included the My Father for Tatuaje cigar one month, but we never got the Tatuaje for My Father. And welp, that’s that… lol.
| wdt_created_by | cigar_key | cigar | date | appearance | draw | burn | flavors | overall | buyagain | rating | CApp | CDrw | CBrn | CFlv | COvr | CBuy | score | Plainly_Put |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mcclossm | My Father & Tatuaje La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) - Double Corona (7.25 x 50) | My Father & Tatuaje La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) - Double Corona (7.25 x 50) | 2025-12-30 | Average | Good | Good | Average | Average | Reply hazy, try again (just ok, the juice isn't worth the squeeze) | 3.00 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3.00 | 6.00 | Risky venture |
The Review
This review for the My Father & Tatuaje La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) - Double Corona (7.25 x 50) is based on the journal entry dated 2025-12-30
Appearance & Construction (0-3): Average (2)
Rustic… Rustic is a nice way of saying rough-looking, or maybe even downright shitty. But this La Union looks like it got left in the oven a bit too long. It has a rich, dark, super toothy chocolate brown leaf with almost no sheen, but it does have a decent amount of mottling and color variation. But holy hell, it’s rough-looking; it’s almost crispy-looking. The veins are thick and very distinct, creating a lot of ridges and valleys. It’s a really thick leaf, so the seams are raised, lifting, and making it overall rough-looking. It has the bullet-shaped 109-style cap, but the edges of the cap are rough on the lips. It’s just very lumpy and ridged, and well… rustic. Let’s just leave it at that. If you expect a nice-looking cigar for your premium price, this ain’t it.
It does have the fancy oversized label like the prior La Union, the secondary band that says, “Para Tatuaje,” indicating this is the My Father blend, and the yellow foot band with the embraced hands that says, “La Union,” indicating it’s from the Red humidor. But at this point, it feels like lipstick on a pig. The biggest issue is it’s not a cigar that is going to entice you to drop $60+ on appearance alone. It’s not poorly constructed at all, it’s just fuck ugly. If you took the bands off, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a cheap farm roll.
Draw (0-3) & Burn (0-4): Good (3) / Good (3)
I know some folks love it, but I’m not a huge fan of the 109-style cap because it doesn’t lend itself to the punch. So I go with the V-cutter as my backup option, which works well. The draw is good, if slightly open. The burn starts a little uneven, but it quickly becomes incredibly wavy. The ash is a very light gray, almost white with light gray accents, but it wants to split and flake. It has a lot of rippling and uneven striations that mimic the lumpy unevenness of the wrapper. By the end of the first inch, the burn line is nearly dead-even, self-correcting quickly. But within another half inch, it’s uneven and wavy again with the ash looking like it’s ready to fall… So I gracefully roll the ash off into the tray in the first third, and the burn line is correcting again. It’s just having trouble picking a lane.
Flavor Profile (0-5): Average (2)
Immediate black pepper spice, heavy charred oak, but also a mushroomy earth and almost sour flavor hit right away. It’s weird because there’s both a sharp citrus sweetness and a sour aspect as well. It’s a lemon sour, not a milk sour—thank fucking God—but it feels out of place with the mushroom savoriness. It’s also aggressively heavy on the charred oak, which is followed by black coffee, earth, leather, and a damp mustiness that leads right back to that salty, vegetal mushroom flavor. At the moment, I’m confused and unsure if I love it or hate it. I imagine this is exactly how it feels the first time a girl sticks her pinky finger up your butt during a blowjob. You’re confused if you love or hate it, but you also can’t stop right in the middle of things to figure it out. This is where it is best to heed my own advice: cigars are like an orgy—try everything once, twice if it doesn’t kill you! 😂
Into the second third, the signature “Pepin spice” is in full effect. Actual mouth and throat burn is going on. It’s developing a dry mesquite BBQ flavor at times from the charred oak and black pepper that’s mixing with a dry breadiness. The sour and mushroom flavors let up to reveal more gritty earth, leather, and bits of barnyard. But then they come back, and it’s an unpleasant and more intense sour unlike before. I’m struggling to figure out the blender’s intent here. It’s flat-out fucking weird that there’s a sour mushroom flavor with everything else going on. Dark chocolate and bitter coffee notes are coming in, so there’s bitterness and harshness, not refinement or balance. Its sweetness is fleeting and inconsistent, but worse, it’s lacking some of the smoothness or creaminess I would hope for to balance things out. And then, there are moments where the shit-tastic trifecta of sour, harsh, and bitter goes away and it’s sweet, savory, and earthy with toasted cedar and mocha layered with a sweet lemon zest. When this blend is on, it sings. But I’m currently in a union with a bipolar cigar that flips in an instant.
The sour notes come back in the final third, but then they go away again. I guess some people might enjoy this. It’s the pineapple pizza effect, where some combinations that turn most people off are deeply loved by others. Hell, there are people who enjoy beer that tastes like pickle brine. 🤢🤮 Clearly, I’m not one of those people. And it’s not tar, it’s just sour and bitter. There are no metallic or ammonia notes, but it’s just not landing with me. The pleasant earthy and savory notes have all but disappeared, and what’s left when I’m not getting hit with the sour is burnt toast and charred wood with a lot of black pepper, black coffee, and dark chocolate. It’s gritty, it’s harsh, it’s bitter, and I’m disappointed.
Overall Experience (0-5): Average (2)
There were moments where it felt like this La Union could be something different and special, but it fell flat on its face harder than a little kid learning how to roller skate. And I feel like I got punched in the face as hard as that kid would’ve face-planted. It would be disappointing as an average-priced My Father cigar, but it feels downright criminal at the price La Union sells for. Hard pass. Skip this one. Some people would call it a dog rocket, but at this size, it’s a horse missile. If you’re ever at the trace track and there’s a horse named, a “Prominente Especial,” don’t waste your money on it. Or this cigar.
Base Rating (0-5)3.00 |
Final Score (0-10)6.00Risky venture |
Is it Burnable?Reply hazy, try again (just ok, the juice isn't worth the squeeze) |
Postscript
2026-Sep-05: Revisiting this La Union blend (because it didn’t kill me 😭), the experience was only mildly better, even though half of the cap peeled off halfway through and the burn wasn’t great. I hit a lot of the same notes as the first time, but a little fewer and further between. Aging helps soften the blow, but it was still tangy, sour, harsh, and off-putting at times. I mean, who green-lit this blend for a $60 cigar? Maybe the Garcia and Johnson families love this blend, but if my brother- and father-in-law dedicated this blend to me, I’d be worried about the message they were sending. 🫣😂
So back to the intro where I mentioned I didn’t have the Tatuaje for My Father counterpart to this cigar. After smoking the My Father blend, I have zero interest in getting the Tatuaje blend. That’s My Father’s loss but I’m not in for another $120 to get two of those.
Overall Score and Individual Journal Entries
While the review is based off one instance of journaling this cigar; there's a number of reasons you can have different experiences smoking the same cigar multiple times. A blend can evolve with age (for better or worse), palates evolves, preferences change, and sometimes you just get a bad example! This section captures the ratings from each journal entry and the related journal photo. Below you'll find an aggregate score based on every time the cigar has been journaled. Unless it was a gift or on-off smoke, this section will be updated every time I journal this cigar!
| Times Journaled | Base Rating | Burnable? | Final Score | Plainly Put |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2.75 | Better to not tell you now (kind of meh) | 5.34 | Risky venture |
| Journaling Date | Cigar | Appearance | Draw | Burn | Flavors | Overall Experience | Base Rating | Burnable? | Final Score | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | My Father & Tatuaje La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) - Double Corona (7.25 x 50) | Average | Good | Good | Average | Average | 3.00 | Reply hazy, try again (just ok, the juice isn't worth the squeeze) | 6.00 | |
| 2026-09-04 | My Father & Tatuaje La Union - My Father for Tatuaje (Red Humidor) - Double Corona (7.25 x 50) | Poor | Average | Good | Average | Average | 2.50 | Better to not tell you now (kind of meh) | 4.67 |
Journaling Photos
The Flavor Wheel
| Category | Strength |
|---|---|
| Baking Spice | 1.50 |
| Pepper | 2.50 |
| Coffee / Espresso | 2.50 |
| Anise / Licorice | 0.00 |
| Sweet | 2.50 |
| Chocolate | 1.50 |
| Bready / Toasty | 1.50 |
| Woody / Charred | 3.00 |
| Grass / Hay | 0.00 |
| Earth | 2.50 |
| Leather | 1.50 |
| Floral / Aromatic | 0.00 |
| Fruity | 2.00 |
| Nutty | 0.00 |
| Salty / Mineral | 1.50 |
| Creamy | 1.50 |
| Musty / Barnyard | 1.50 |
| Bitter | 2.00 |
| Smooth | 1.00 |
| Harsh | 2.50 |
With every cigar I journal, I capture simple ratings of the basic flavor categories that I experience. These are more generalized than what you would see in a review, but a distinct profile can still be built out. When multiple instances of the same cigar have been journaled, the scores are averaged out in an attempt to build a reliable flavor profile based on my palate.
The values entered for the strength of each flavor range from 0 to 3.
- 0: No flavor detected
- 1: Mild flavor
- 2: Medium flavor
- 3: Strong flavor
Note: desktop / large screens will see a flavor wheel while mobile / small screens will see a bar chart.
With every cigar I journal, I capture simple ratings of the basic flavor categories that I experience. These are more generalized than what you would see in a review, but a distinct profile can still be built out. When multiple instances of the same cigar have been journaled, the scores are averaged out in an attempt to build a reliable flavor profile based on my palate.
The values entered for the strength of each flavor range from 0 to 3.
- 0: No flavor detected
- 1: Mild flavor
- 2: Medium flavor
- 3: Strong flavor
Note: desktop / large screens will see a flavor wheel while mobile / small screens will see a bar chart.
| Category | Strength |
|---|---|
| Baking Spice | 1.50 |
| Pepper | 2.50 |
| Coffee / Espresso | 2.50 |
| Anise / Licorice | 0.00 |
| Sweet | 2.50 |
| Chocolate | 1.50 |
| Bready / Toasty | 1.50 |
| Woody / Charred | 3.00 |
| Grass / Hay | 0.00 |
| Earth | 2.50 |
| Leather | 1.50 |
| Floral / Aromatic | 0.00 |
| Fruity | 2.00 |
| Nutty | 0.00 |
| Salty / Mineral | 1.50 |
| Creamy | 1.50 |
| Musty / Barnyard | 1.50 |
| Bitter | 2.00 |
| Smooth | 1.00 |
| Harsh | 2.50 |
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