Fourteen Halloween-Themed Cigars To DIE For!
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As the autumn season and Halloween start to make their slow descent into our lives, it's darn near impossible to ignore the exaggerating marking campaigns bestowed upon us. From pumpkin spice meatloaf to "spooky" serial.
For some companies, it seems to be a desperate attempt for final quarter profits but for others, a chance to seize the subculture fandom that is horror movie mania and collectibles. One such company that is no stranger to the demand and longing of Halloween seasonal merchandise is Tatuaje Cigars, Inc.
For the past decade or so, the company has been providing fans and cigar connoisseurs with special addition Halloween-themed cigars, that only release once a year for a short run .This short run of Halloween-themed cigars is known as Tatujes Monster mash. Such a fitting name considering that each box comes with fourteen individually cured and crafted cigars, each one resembling a horror iconic monster from the silver screen.
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With Halloween just a few weeks away, Tatuaje’s latest installment in its Halloween-themed Monster Series is on its way to stores. But instead of just a single new cigar, Pete Johnson is releasing the Tatuaje Monster Mash, a sampler with 14 cigars in it that feature the previous 13 Monster Series releases in a new vitola, as well as the debut of a new Monster Series cigar.
- Patrick Lagreid
The sampler box is made of Spanish cedar for aroma freshness and is cleverly designed in the shape of a coffin. The box has also had a mild "paint job", blood drops. For a better description of the monster mash's unique blends and sizes, we took to halfwheel.com to explain in detail what each cigar entails.
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For the blends that have been previously released, the cigars in the Monster Mash will be 1 1/2 inches shorter than the original version but with the same ring gauge. The roster of those cigars looks like this:
Tatuaje Monster Mash Frank — 6 1/8 x 49
Tatuaje Monster Mash Drac — 5 1/4 x 52
Tatuaje Monster Mash Face — 4 7/8 x 56
Tatuaje Monster Mash Wolf — 6 x 52
Tatuaje Monster Mash Mummy — 6 1/4 x 47
Tatuaje Monster Mash Jason — 6 x 52
Tatuaje Monster Mash Jekyll — 5 1/2 x 49
Tatuaje Monster Mash Hyde — 5 1/2 x 49
Tatuaje Monster Mash Krueger — 5 3/8 x 48
Tatuaje Monster Mash Michael — 5 x 52
Tatuaje Monster Mash Chuck — 4 3/8 x 52
Tatuaje Monster Mash Tiff — 4 3/8 x 52
Tatuaje Monster Mash Bride — 5 5/8 x 49
As for the new cigar, it is called Creature, a nod to the 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, and is a 5 3/8 x 48 perfecto, the same vitola used for the Tatuaje Black Label Britannica's Extra. Pete Johnson has not disclosed the blend of this new cigar, other than that it uses a Nicaraguan double binder.
-Patrick Lagreid
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Now that you're aware of the existence of Halloween-themed cigars, would you be interested in picking up a box for your next costume ball as part of the celebratory libations or perhaps to add to your Halloween collection? Let us know.
