Tatuaje lead-man Pete Johnson hath reportedly decided to ship his TAA 2017 offerings to his California retailers before the state's massive tax increase doth hit on July 1st. Passing as a ballot measure back in November, the theft -- erm -- tax, will then rise astronomically from 27.3% of wholesale to 65.08%. The rest of the country will have to wait till August for their Tatuaje TAA '17; the good news for them being that they won't be waiting in California.
Ah, but the cigar (which retails for $11.95 now and $15.21 on July 1st, as per Halfwheel calculations [ah, but again the tax]), it's the Tatuaje TAA 2014 blend. Same boxes and bands, and everything. Checking box's date-stamp is yer best bet to decipher date, natch. Sounds like a real phone-it-in effort to me, gentlepersons. In case yer memory sees 2014 as longer-ago than it was: Toro 652 format with Nicaraguan guts under Connecticut Broadleaf top-leaf, hung-over in/unto closed-foot. That's OK, I still hear about some-one's 2000 model car and think "Ooohhh, that's new." I need a better class of acquaintances and a decent multi-vitamin.
