New Pete Johnson lancero???

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From the new Cigar Insider:

TATUAJE OWNER RELEASES
SECRET CIGAR
BY GREGORY MOTTOLA
Ever smoke a cigar that
doesn’t exist? According
to Pete Johnson, owner of
Havana Cellars and the
Tatuaje cigar brand, his
newest project, El Triunfador,
does not exist. It’s not on any
price sheets, it’s not on his
Web site, and you’re really
not supposed to know
about it. If it does exist. it’s available by
appointment only.

“This is a ghost cigar,” said Johnson. “You can maybe
get it if you ask, but I don’t really talk about El Triunfador.
It might be out there circulating—the story and the cigar.”
So what does one have to do to get his hands on a box
of El Triunfador? Johnson didn’t really say. He did, however,
mention that the blend consists of Nicaraguan binder
and filler and a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper similar to
the one he uses for the La Riqueza line. El Triunfador is a
lancero measuring 7 1/2 inches by 38 ring gauge, and
comes ribbon-bound in slide-lid wooden boxes of 25. The
cigar started finding its way to retailers and smokers in the
beginning of September, but it’s a cigar that Johnson is hesitant
to even acknowledge.

“I didn’t want any buzz about this cigar,” said Johnson,
while adding that the secrecy behind El Triunfador is not
unlike the mystique behind the storied Cuban “diplomatic”
Trinidad, also a lancero. Before that brand became commercially
available with a new size called the Fundadore,
few smokers actually ever saw one.
El Triunfador is made by Pepin Garcia in the Tabacalera
Cubana S.A. factory in Nicaragua, and retails for $9 per
cigar. Because El Triunfador is a resurrected vintage
Cuban brand, each long cigar is adorned with a band
resembling the Cuban Rafael Gonzalez label.
Presently, the cigar comes in only one size and, according
to Johnson, the blend is unique to this particular
shape. Should Johnson expand the brand, he said he
would change the blend, but only select retailers would
have access to it.