Tatuaje Schedules Monster Smash Sampler For August, The Wolfman Redux for October

First, there was the Monster Mash; this summer, there will be the Monster Smash. Tatuaje unveiled the new sampler for its Monster Series at the 2024 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which is happening this weekend at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The Tatuaje Monster Smash includes 14 cigars: the 13 Monster Series releases in a new vitola, as well as the second release of the Creature, a nod to the 1954 movie “Creature from the Black Lagoon” that was originally released as a 5 3/8 x 48 perfecto vitola in 2021’s Monster Mash sampler.

All 14 cigars in the Monster Smash will come in a 5 1/4 x 52 box-pressed robusto extra size:

• Tatuaje Monster Smash Frank (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Drac (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Face (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Wolf (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Mummy (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Jason (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Jekyll (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Hyde (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Krueger (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Michael (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Chuck (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Tiff (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Bride (5 1/4 x 52)
• Tatuaje Monster Smash Creature (5 1/4 x 52)

The cigars are different blends, and use the same blends as their previous releases.

Each of the samplers will be priced at $175, with 13,000 samplers being made by My Father Cigars S.A. in Nicaragua. Pete Johnson, founder of Tatuaje Cigars, told halfwheel that the Monster Smash is scheduled to begin shipping to retailers in August.

Johnson has also told halfwheel that he has a second release of The Wolfman planned for October as part of the Monster Series Redux releases, a subseries that has seen Tatuaje rerelease the original Monster Series vitolas. The Wolfman was the fourth Monster Series release and will be the fourth one to get a redux release, following The Frank Redux 1, The Drac Redux 2, and The Face Redux 3.

Brooks Whittington

I have been smoking cigars for over eight years. A documentary wedding photographer by trade, I spent seven years as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I started the cigar blog SmokingStogie in 2008 after realizing that there was a need for a cigar blog with better photographs and more in-depth information about each release. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars. I am a co-founder of halfwheel and now serve as an editor for halfwheel.