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Tatajue and DPG

Gator

Gator

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Just curious how much of this very popular cigar is Pete Johnson, or Don Pepin Garcia? Is Tatajue just a marketing arm for DPG, and do they now need each other. Seems to me, just a uninformed gander, that DPG is the guts of the Tat brand as he grows, blends, and rolls the tobacco, but maybe Pete is very hands on in controlling what goes into these cigars?

I'm not trying to knock Pete at all, i'm just curious how this partnership works, and i also know very little about the processes involved w/ making cigars.
 
We all know DPG was an insignificant MASTER when Pete "discovered" him. I expect that Tats will remain significant, but will not retain the stature they enjoyed with DPG.
 
I myself never gave it much thought. I just enjoy the cigars.
 
I draw the line at murderin' commie bastids. Pete hasn't crossed that line.

Doc.
 
NullSmurf said:
We all know DPG was an insignificant MASTER when Pete "discovered" him. I expect that Tats will remain significant, but will not retain the stature they enjoyed with DPG.
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From here:

Pepin Garcia came to Miami from Nicaragua with his family to work for Tropical doing rolling events and to help in the Tropical warehouse. When Pete met him he was doing this. Pepin started making Pete's Tatuaje line of cigars with his family in Tropical warehouse and he shortly after moved to his little factory. This is when he started making his own brands. About 9 months later a few people asked him to make private labels. After Tatuaje was rated, everyone wanted to have Pepin make a cigar for them.
 
Neat story, sounds like they have been very good for each other, and that's the guts of a long term partnership.

How big is DPG's farm?
 
moki said:
NullSmurf said:
We all know DPG was an insignificant MASTER when Pete "discovered" him. I expect that Tats will remain significant, but will not retain the stature they enjoyed with DPG.
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From here:

Pepin Garcia came to Miami from Nicaragua with his family to work for Tropical doing rolling events and to help in the Tropical warehouse. When Pete met him he was doing this. Pepin started making Pete's Tatuaje line of cigars with his family in Tropical warehouse and he shortly after moved to his little factory. This is when he started making his own brands. About 9 months later a few people asked him to make private labels. After Tatuaje was rated, everyone wanted to have Pepin make a cigar for them.
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You indicate that this is a quote - from where, please. My opinion of Pete is clear - he is a successful businessman whose ethics and integrety I question. Where do you stand? Is my statement is inaccurate?
 
What exactly makes you question his ethics and integrity. He seems like a guy that has been into cigars for a long time, and got the change to partner with DPG to create a new label that seems to be doing rather well. I am not sure what he is doing or has done that would make you have such a bad picture of him.
I don't personally know the guy, but he has definitely posted answers to questions and sounds like a stand up guy.

Dave
 
My understanding was Pete wanted out of the Beverly Hills Lounge and decided a boutique brand was the way to do it.
I think on Vitolas.net somewhere there is a quote about wanting to capture the flavors of mid-80s Habanos using high-end Nicaraguan tobaccos. Pepin was the guy with the talent to bring Pete's ideas into reality:

From the above linked CF post by Pete:
"Pepin and I took time discussing tobacco for what I needed and what I thought was good. He was able to translate my thoughts into a cigar for me. Why, because he knows what he is doing and he knows how to put it together."

Obviously Pepin is an amazing blender, and his own line is fantastic. I in fact feel that the Blue Label Lancero is one of the best cigars out there hands-down. But there is somethign about the unified flavors and 'feel' of the Tatuaje line(s) that makes them something special for me.

Gator, I thought you gave up on the Pepin stuff...
 
Agreed, I purposefully did not respond after reading the link that NullSmurf posted. I was not aware of that whole situation, nor do I want to get in the middle of it. I do not personally know either person.

Dave
 
NullSmurf said:
You indicate that this is a quote - from where, please. My opinion of Pete is clear - he is a successful businessman whose ethics and integrety I question. Where do you stand? Is my statement is inaccurate?
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The quote is from the web page I linked to. Where do I stand? I disagree with you. I've known Pete for a while, and I haven't seen him display a lack of ethics and integrity.

I look at the dispute between Al and Pete as two people I respect having an unfortunate business falling out. I don't think less of either of 'em for it, I think it just happens sometimes. Just like I would not think less of a couple that I'm friends with if they decided to break up.

We don't know what either of them is thinking, we don't know everything that transpired, we don't know everything that was said. Thus I continue to respect Pete, and respect Alan.
 
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