Tatuaje LLE Capa Especial (6.75×42 / Box of 20)

The cigar is the Tatuaje LLE Capa Especial, with LLE short for Limited Lonsdale Extra. It’s a cigar that was formerly known as the NHC Selección Limitada Capa Especial, a store exclusive for New Havana Cigars. It’s a 6 3/4 x 42 box pressed lonsdale that uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over Nicaraguan binders and fillers. Johnson told halfwheel that the blend is the same as the original, other than the natural variance that can occur with different tobacco crops.

It is a blend that gets its roots from the Tatuaje 7th Capa Especial; in 2010, Dan Welsh, owner of New Havana Cigars, was visiting the factory and fell in love with the Sumatra wrapper. He asked Johnson what the original NHC Selección Limitada would taste like with that wrapper, Johnson had some produced, and the rest is history. The first run was just 70 boxes of 20 cigars.