Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin Returns For 2025
Most cigars come in boxes, some come in bundles, but Pete Johnson’s Pork Tenderloin comes curiously packaged in white butcher paper, much like you would find at a high-end meat market. Johnson introduced the cigar in 2010, initially intended as an exclusive for a Boston retailer. But the Pork Tenderloin quickly gained popularity with consumers, enough so to warrant wider releases in 2016 and 2017 as an event-only cigar. Now the public will get a third helping as Pork Tenderloin returns this year. It’s expected to begin shipping to retailers next week.
“The name is truly fitting for the cigar,” Johnson tells Cigar Aficionado. He describes the smoke as having “rich, bold flavors with that broadleaf sweetness and aroma of smoked meat.”
Topped with a pigtail cap, Pork Tenderloin measures 5 1/8 inches by 52 ring gauge. The 2025 edition features the same blend as the original: a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper with Nicaraguan binder and filler. (A version called Lome de Cerdo, wrapped in Mexican San Andrés, was released in 2023.) Don’t let the paper wrapping fool you—be sure to read the label so as not to confuse it with your groceries and accidentally stick it in the freezer.
Each bundle contains 25 cigars, and has a suggested retail price of $325, or $13 per cigar.
Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin is crafted at My Father Cigars in Estelí, Nicaragua. Production is limited to 5,000 bundles, or 125,000 cigars.
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