![]() Upon closer examination, there is some darker marbling that can be seen. The Sancti Spiritus wrapper of the Tatuaje Jekyll has almost a caramel color to it. There are 13 cigars in the dress box and 10 cigars in the non-dress box. The Tatuaje Jekyll has been released in one size – a 7 x 49 Churchill with a flat “bullet” tip (i.e “109” size) cap. ![]() Sancti Spiritus has been a staple leaf used on many blends from Johnson’s other company, L’Atelier Imports.Ģ015’s Tatuaje Hyde will be a different blend and use an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper. The wrapper is also designed to have a strong resistance to mold. The wrapper is a hybrid of Criollo and Pelo de Oro and was originally designed to be a replacement seed for Pelo de Oro. The Tatuaje Jekyll is the first Tatuaje cigar to utilize the Sancti Spiritus wrapper. Without further ado, let’s break down the Tatuaje Jekyll and see what this cigar brings to the table. Non-dress box of Tatuaje Hyde (2015 Planned Release) The remainder of the Jekyll cigars are packaged in simple cedar boxes.Ĭonncted dress boxes and cigars of Tatuaje Jekyll (Left) There were 666 Jekyll dress boxes made available to thirteen retailers known as the “Unlucky 13”. When placed together, the two images form a single image. At the 2014 IPCPR Trade Show, Tatuaje showed off the dress boxes for both Tatuaje Jekyll and Tatuaje Hyde. Much of the frenzy for this release focuses on what has been termed the custom designed “dress boxes”. The announcement of each release of the Monster Series sets off a frenzy by Tatuaje fans. When Jekyll was formally announced as the 2014 Monster Series installment, Johnson did something different in that he announced the 2015 Monster release, Jekyll’s counterpart, the Tatuaje Hyde. There have been two additional offshoots of the Monster Series released as samplers, the smaller Little Monsters set, and the (smaller and wider) Pudgy Monsters set. A single batch is produced and once the cigars are gone – they are gone. Each release of the Monster Series is a different blend in a different (yet long) size. Every year since 2008, Tatuaje enthusiasts have anxiously look forward to the release of this cigar and seek to procure a box. This annual release series was created by Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson as a tribute to monster and horror movies. Overall I found this to be a stellar release and one that will go down as one of the better blends in this series. I have recently had the opportunity to smoke the Tatuaje Jekyll blend. ![]() Hyde” would be forthcoming installments in the Tatuaje Monsters Series. It was almost exactly a year to the day of this review (Tuesday before Thanksgiving) where Tatuaje Cigars owner Pete Johnson announced on Stogie Geeks that Jekyll and Hyde, the characters from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. If you include the two new blends of Chuck and Tiff introduced in the Pudgy Monsters series, it is the ninth Monsters / Little Monsters / Pudgy Monsters blend overall. The Tatuaje Jekyll is the seventh installment in the Tatuaje Monster Series.
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