Tatuaje’s Unlucky 13 Retailers Announced, The Bride Begins Shipping (Update)
Pete Johnson took to social media on Saturday morning to announce this year’s Unlucky 13, the group of retailers who will be receiving the bulk of the highly coveted dress boxes of The Bride, the upcoming Tatuaje Monster Series release.
Those retailers are:
- Ambassador Cigars & Spirits — Troy, Mich. (248-250-9716)
- Big Sticks Fine Cigars — Mesa, Ariz. (480-668-6099)
- Boiling Springs Wine & Cigar — Boiling Springs, S.C. (864-804-6069)
- Burn Premium Cigar Specialists — Burnsville, Minn. (952-808-9259)
- Cigar Warehouse — Sherman Oaks, Calif. (818-784-1391)
- Harry’s Smoke Shop — Philadelphia, Penn. (215-925-4770)
- Heritage Premium Cigars — Martin, N.J. (856-988-7665)
- Industrial Cigar Company — Frisco, Texas (469-305-7360)
- Tobacco Haven — Brookline, N.H. (603-673-1178)
- Smoky’s Tobacco Cigars & Gifts — Knoxville, Tenn. (865-693-8371)
- TisMart Cigar Shop & Lounge — Brewerton, N.Y. (315-622-8889)
- Tobacco Locker Cigar Bar — Port Charlotte, Fla. (941-255-8825)
- The Vault — Meridian, Idaho (208-901-0217)
The Monster Series, which debuted in 2008, draws its inspiration from some of the most well-known monsters of film and literature, with a selection of the total number of cigars released packaged into elaborate dress boxes often designed to look like coffins and bearing a tie-in to the character. This year’s release, The Bride, is a 7 1/8 x 49 Churchill is based on James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein. It uses a Connecticut broadleaf rosado wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan fillers, a blend that Johnson calls medium plus and an “elegant monster.”
Production numbers are the same as the 2017 release year’s release—The Michael—meaning 666 dress boxes of 13 cigars and 4,500 boxes of 10 cigars for a total of 53,658 cigars. It is priced at $13 per cigar, regardless of in which box they are packaged.
Unlucky 13 retailers receive 31 dress boxes each, while retailers throughout the country split the remaining 263 boxes, a split that usually means receiving between one and three dress boxes. Shipments of The Bride are already en route to The Unlucky 13 retailers, according to Johnson, who added that the remaining shipments should be in transit by Oct. 13.
Update: Shortly after this article was published, Pete Johnson informed halfwheel of the shipping status of The Bride.
Patrick Lagreid
I strive to capture the essence of a cigar and the people behind them in my work – every cigar you light up is the culmination of the work of countless people and often represents generations of struggle and stories. For me, it’s about so much more than the cigar – it’s about the story behind it, the experience of enjoying the work of artisans and the way that a good cigar can bring people together. In addition to my work with halfwheel, I’m the public address announcer for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks during spring training, as well as for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and previously the Arizona Rattlers of the Indoor Football League. I also work in a number of roles for Major League Baseball, plus I'm a voice over artist. Prior to joining halfwheel, I covered the Phoenix and national cigar scene for Examiner.com, and was an editor for Cigar Snob magazine.
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