關(guān)系是一種珍貴的東西,，無論是家人、朋友還是商業(yè)伙伴,，或者以上所有關(guān)系的組合,。老爹雪茄的何塞·佩平·加西亞（José “Pepin” Garcia）和塔圖阿赫雪茄的皮特·約翰遜聯(lián)合發(fā)布了一組包括四款雪茄的價(jià)格不菲的限量版產(chǎn)品，來慶祝雙方合作20年富有成果的關(guān)系,。
他們從2003年開始合作,，當(dāng)時(shí)出生于古巴的何塞·佩平·加西亞移民到美國(guó)，在佛羅里達(dá)州的邁阿密的小哈瓦那社區(qū)開辦了他的第一家雪茄廠哈瓦那國(guó)王雪茄廠（El Rey de los Habanos）,。同年,，加西亞在一次活動(dòng)中認(rèn)識(shí)了約翰遜，約翰遜成為了加西亞第一個(gè)客戶,，他委托加西亞生產(chǎn)約翰遜的自有品牌雪茄,。這個(gè)組合誕生了很多受歡迎的雪茄品牌，很多進(jìn)入了Cigar Aficionado雜志的年度25名榜單,。
即將推出的這個(gè)“聯(lián)盟”（ La Union）雪茄,，一共有四款不同的煙葉混合，每家公司調(diào)配兩款,。尺寸只有一個(gè),，50環(huán)徑，7.25英寸,，茄頭部分是109式風(fēng)格的比力高造型,。
“聯(lián)盟”有兩款包裝盒，一個(gè)是紅色盒子,，一個(gè)是黑色盒子,。每個(gè)盒子里都有約翰遜和加西亞的雪茄，每款雪茄的茄衣都不一樣,。黑盒中的約翰遜負(fù)責(zé)調(diào)配煙葉混合的雪茄用的茄衣是尼加拉瓜科羅霍99陰植葉,，加西亞調(diào)配的雪茄用的茄衣是厄瓜多爾哈瓦那煙葉。
紅盒里的約翰遜調(diào)配的雪茄用的茄衣是厄瓜多爾蘇門答臘煙葉,，加西亞調(diào)配的雪茄用的茄衣是康涅狄格闊葉,。
這四款雪茄的茄套、茄芯用的都是尼加拉瓜煙葉,，還使用了一些“金發(fā)”（Pelo d’Oro）品種的煙葉,，都是加西亞家族種植的。
約翰遜調(diào)配的兩款雪茄的茄腳是閉合的,，加西亞的兩款雪茄是傳統(tǒng)的開放式茄腳,。
這四款限量版雪茄價(jià)格相當(dāng)昂貴，在美國(guó)的售價(jià)是每支60美元,，雪茄是在尼加拉瓜的埃斯特利的老爹雪茄廠生產(chǎn)的,。
包裝盒的外蓋、內(nèi)蓋和雪茄的煙標(biāo)都有“聯(lián)盟”的標(biāo)志,，標(biāo)志有三只手,，何塞的兒子杰米（Jaime）和約翰遜握手，何塞的手從上方伸出來祝福這種合作的“聯(lián)盟”,。每個(gè)盒子里有40支雪茄,，每種煙葉混合20支。
紅盒,、黑盒各生產(chǎn)1500盒,，其中1200盒分配給美國(guó)市場(chǎng)，300盒分配給國(guó)際市場(chǎng),。每個(gè)盒子都有單獨(dú)編號(hào),，還裝了一把西卡的雪茄刀。
老爹雪茄公司的何塞·奧爾特加（Jose Ortega）表示,，大概三周后開始發(fā)貨,。
Relationships are a precious thing, whether it is family, friends, business partners or a combination of all of the above. José “Pepin” Garcia of My Father Cigars and Pete Johnson of Tatuaje are celebrating two decades of a fruitful relationship with a quartet of limited-edition and considerably expensive cigars called La Union, Spanish for “the union.”
Their working relationship began in 2003 when the Cuban-born Garcia emigrated to the United States in 2003 and established his first cigar factory, El Rey de los Habanos, in Miami’s Little Havana district. That same year, Garcia met Johnson at an event and from there became Garcia’s first private-label client. From that union have sprung many popular cigar brands, many of which have even found themselves in Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25.
For La Union, four blends were created, two by each cigarmaker. Each is available in only one vitola, which the cigarmakers call Prominente Especial. It measures 7 1/4 inches long by 50 ring gauge and is topped with a 109-style belicoso head.
La Union is split in two different box sets that are distinguished by their red or black exteriors. Inside each box is one blend by Johnson and one by Garcia, and each blend has its own distinctive wrapper. The La Union Prominente Especial Black box contains a Johnson-blended cigar clad in a shade-grown Nicaraguan Corojo ’99 cover leaf and a Garcia-blended cigar covered in Ecuador Habano. For the La Union Prominente Especial Red box, Johnson uses Ecuador Sumatra and Garcia uses Connecticut broadleaf.
The inside of each cigar is made with all-Nicaraguan binder and fillers, leaves that were all grown by the Garcias, including some Pelo d’Oro leaf.
The cigars blended by Johnson will have a closed foot, whereas Garcia’s will have a traditional, open foot.
These special cigars are considerably expensive: each has a suggested retail price of $60. They are produced at the My Father Cigars S.A factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
The outer and inner lid and the cigar ribbons all feature the La Union logo which is a rendering of the shaking hands of Pete Johnson and Pepin’s son Jaime, who runs My Father Cigars with his father, with Pepin’s hand coming from above to bless the union. The boxes come 40 cigars in total, 20 of each blend.
Production is limited to 1,500 boxes each of the red and black boxes, with 1,200 allocated for the U.S. market and 300 for international markets. Each individually-numbered box includes a Xikar cutter.
Jose Ortega of My Father Cigars said shipping would begin “in about three weeks.”
