关系是一种珍贵的东西，无论是家人、朋友还是商业伙伴，或者以上所有关系的组合。老爹雪茄的何塞·佩平·加西亚（José “Pepin” Garcia）和塔图阿赫雪茄的皮特·约翰逊联合发布了一组包括四款雪茄的价格不菲的限量版产品，来庆祝双方合作20年富有成果的关系。

他们从2003年开始合作，当时出生于古巴的何塞·佩平·加西亚移民到美国，在佛罗里达州的迈阿密的小哈瓦那社区开办了他的第一家雪茄厂哈瓦那国王雪茄厂（El Rey de los Habanos）。同年，加西亚在一次活动中认识了约翰逊，约翰逊成为了加西亚第一个客户，他委托加西亚生产约翰逊的自有品牌雪茄。这个组合诞生了很多受欢迎的雪茄品牌，很多进入了Cigar Aficionado杂志的年度25名榜单。

即将推出的这个“联盟”（ La Union）雪茄，一共有四款不同的烟叶混合，每家公司调配两款。尺寸只有一个，50环径，7.25英寸，茄头部分是109式风格的比力高造型。

“联盟”有两款包装盒，一个是红色盒子，一个是黑色盒子。每个盒子里都有约翰逊和加西亚的雪茄，每款雪茄的茄衣都不一样。黑盒中的约翰逊负责调配烟叶混合的雪茄用的茄衣是尼加拉瓜科罗霍99阴植叶，加西亚调配的雪茄用的茄衣是厄瓜多尔哈瓦那烟叶。

红盒里的约翰逊调配的雪茄用的茄衣是厄瓜多尔苏门答腊烟叶，加西亚调配的雪茄用的茄衣是康涅狄格阔叶。

这四款雪茄的茄套、茄芯用的都是尼加拉瓜烟叶，还使用了一些“金发”（Pelo d’Oro）品种的烟叶，都是加西亚家族种植的。

约翰逊调配的两款雪茄的茄脚是闭合的，加西亚的两款雪茄是传统的开放式茄脚。

这四款限量版雪茄价格相当昂贵，在美国的售价是每支60美元，雪茄是在尼加拉瓜的埃斯特利的老爹雪茄厂生产的。

包装盒的外盖、内盖和雪茄的烟标都有“联盟”的标志，标志有三只手，何塞的儿子杰米（Jaime）和约翰逊握手，何塞的手从上方伸出来祝福这种合作的“联盟”。每个盒子里有40支雪茄，每种烟叶混合20支。

红盒、黑盒各生产1500盒，其中1200盒分配给美国市场，300盒分配给国际市场。每个盒子都有单独编号，还装了一把西卡的雪茄刀。

老爹雪茄公司的何塞·奥尔特加（Jose Ortega）表示，大概三周后开始发货。

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.”