Tatuaje The Wolfman Redux 4 Shipping This Week

Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson has confirmed to halfwheel that the redux version of the company’s fourth Monster Series release will be shipping to retailers today or tomorrow.

The Wolfman Redux 4 is based on The Wolfman, a 7 1/2 x 52 torpedo. Like the original version of The Wolfman, The Wolfman Redux 4 is made with an Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper covering a binder and filler blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos.

It has an MSRP of $13 per cigar and production is limited to 5,000 boxes of 13 cigars. There are three different box versions:

• 666 boxes are numbered 1-666
• 34 boxes are numbered XX, these will not be sold and are instead reserved for events and Tatuaje’s private use
• 4,300 boxes are unnumbered

The Wolfman, pictured above, was released in 2011 as the fourth addition to Tatauje’s popular Monster Series, and the cigar was inspired by The Wolf Man, a classic horror movie released in 1941 starring Bela Lugosi. There were a total of 21,658 cigars released of The Wolfman: 8,658 cigars were packaged in 666 dress boxes made to look like coffins—13 to a box—that featured red paint spatters meant to simulate blood and unique indentions on the top of the box that was designed to mimic the clawing of the wood, while the remaining 13,000 cigars were packaged in 1,300 plain boxes holding 10 cigars each.

Tatuaje’s plan was to release 13 different Monster Series releases, one each year after the debut of the Frank in 2008. It raised an obvious question: what would happen to the very popular series once it concluded, which happened in 2019, a year earlier than planned.

In September 2021, Johnson announced that he would begin shipping redux versions—i.e. new production of the original Monster Series cigars—in the same order in which they were initially released.

Tatuaje has also supplemented the full size Monster Series cigars—and their redux versions—with the release of various samplers that contain smaller versions of the Monster Series blends, including:

• Little Monsters
• Pudgy Monsters
• Skinny Monsters
• Skinny Monsters Cazadores
• Skinny Monsters Lanceros
• Monster Mash
• Monster Smash