While Tatuaje’s Monster Series was launched in 2009, it began to evolve in 2012, the year that the company released The Mummy, the fifth installment in the line. Described as a cleaner looking version of the Black Label blend by Pete Johnson, the larger size used a Nicaraguan sun grown wrapper and Nicaraguan fillers, which was said to give The Mummy a slightly different flavor profile than the other sizes in the blend. For this release, the standard 666 dress boxes of 13 cigars were released, with a sarcophagus-inspired box that featured a familiar rendering of a mummified Egyptian body. Inside each box was a single cigar in the middle of the bundle that was completely wrapped in tissue paper, another nod to the cigar’s name, which comes from the 1932 film The Mummy. Fans of the line didn’t have to wait until October to find out what the 2012 Monster was going to be however, as in the summer of 2012, Tatuaje released a new sampler called Little Monsters that contained shorter, skinnier versions of the first four Monster Series releases as well as the upcoming fifth Monster Series release. The following is largely based on text from Charlie Minato’s review ...
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