Jibaro has to be near the top and I know of one that's about to get fired up!

I used to have a guy by the name of Gallegos who worked for me in the Navy.He had the Harley emblem from shoulder tip to shoulder tip.Said it cost about $1500 to get it done.I've never heard of a more expensive Tat......so I guess that would make it valuable.


Ron

1 Pork tenderloin
2 Brex
3 Noella Reserva 06
4 el cohete
5 maravilla


The 06 LE Releases are by far the most Valuable

I figure the 06 noella are rare but rarely see anyone searching for them.

Newer Tat lover don't really know about them and Older tat lover gave up hope there's hardly any left at all...

The Noellas Reserva 09 is dang near impossible to get for most people so rewind 3 years before that to 06 and they are almost non-existent, maravilla, Cohete, and Noellas from 06 were all pete's 1st LE releases which IMO make them the rarest/most valuable, not a lot of people will put up an ISO because odds are they are wasting there time...

TJ knows his stuff looking forward to him showing up and gracing us with his knowledge...

I gave away a cohete once.

ZRX, I see your using an unsupervised day accordingly, NICE!


They are worth what someone will pay, WGAF!

AH, Gotcha

Pretty much is what I'm doing. Nothing worse then offering something do something else and getting nothing but crickets.

Scary to think about how many of those I've gifted. Had boxes of most on your list. Several boxes of some...

There are many Tat hos that had a lot more than me, but I did jump on the bandwagon early on. Early enough to score boxes of Cohetes, East and West Coast, T110, Porkchops (even had one given to me) and many others... Hell, i could walk in to my local and buy Easties and Westies all day long. I still remember calling Marvin in Hawaii or the guys at Empire begging to get what they had. To me, they were the first limited release cigar that I saw people chase. Hell, people didn't even chase after the Franks when they were first released. At least not to extent that they do now.

The value is completely subjective. Most of the new guys dont even know (or care) about some of his early single store releases. To me, the Tat CG from the jar was probably the most sought after followed by the Frank. Because he now released the blacks in some other sizes, the Frank seems to now be the one that people look for although that has faded as well.

In my opinion, the early reservas and verocu were the best, hands down. None of the monsters ever lived up to the hype. The Dracs and Tubos were the beginning of the end of the hunt for me. I felt that both were pushed out too early and Pete admitted to tripping over his ****** on both of these. Same goes for the 08 Verite line. It just didn't live up to the hype.

Although I dont hunt for them anymore, the only past "rare" Tats I would seek out are the the ones I listed above. Verocu, Noella and Regios Reserva, and the Cohete. I dont know what the blend of the Cohete was based on but it is/was fantastic.

Again, I am no expert on the subject but I did play the game back when Pete was beginning to peddle his wares. It was fun but I'm over it. I will smoke what I have left and enjoy the fond memories of the chase.

This is an interesting thread

Good call!!! Forgot bout Dat one!!

You Tat ho's are a serious crowd aren't you.


Ron

Well if it's any consolation.......................I promise to keep making fun of you.


Ron

DED, not trying to disagree, as the SW was a very rare release, but I'm pretty sure that the Regios Reserva only had 100 boxes released in total. I also dont think there were 50K of the SW maduro released. I'd guess about a 10th of that actually. But I dont have the figures so I could be completely wrong.

With that being said, The SW Reserva Maduro has the same wrapper as the noella and regios reservas. All top sticks. The reason it isn't one of my top favs is because I gravitate towards smaller sticks.



Edit: Damn I'm good. Just checked and the production numbers for the SW Reserva Maduro were 200 boxes of 25. My math says 5000 cigars... (1/10 of 50K I might add)

I like em firm and just a little hang....with big nipples...


Oh...you said Tats....sorry....
I see nothing....I know nothing....
What are Tats?

Oh yeah I forgot the CMF5 my home boy sent me one of those... LOL!

One of you needs to be send me these top 15 and I'll rank them for you LOL. I can't believe that someone else hasn't posted this yet.

BTW I didn't get time to smoke The Jibaro from Skipper yesterday or today. It will get toasted tomorrow.

Pro

Hmmmm, guess I coulda mixed up 50000 with 5000 when reading while drinking. I was a long time ago in a land far away. Thanks for the correction. I musta bought 5% of the total production of that stick.

DED

All this Tat talk.. Smoked an Eastie tonite with my buddy, Mikey. Great cigar.

Did great!

Dayum

Damn, some high prices there but someone will pay it if they can't find them any more. East and West sold for $9- $10 when released and the RC and Uno are still available by the box at many places.

DED

A lot of that list including 4 Brex, 4 Pork Tenderloin and a Cohete are up for sale in a 23 cigar sampler for $495 at OLH right now.

It's been hard for me not to pull the trigger on the Tat Black CG jar with the sealed 19 cigars for $450 at that gar trader place!