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Review: Viaje Super Shot 12 Gauge

Late last year, Andre Farkas showed off boxes of a new Viaje line, Super Shot. While the 10 Gauge Super Shot already shipped in late February, Viaje opted to stagger the release of the second size, Super Shot 12 Gauge. This past week, Super Shot 12 Gauge began arriving in stores alongside the next WLP [...]

Review: Viaje Skull and Bones Red WMD (2012)

A few weeks ago, Andre Farkas showed off a new round of Viajes set to hit retailers in mid-March. Included were a total of five different cigars, including three different Skull and Bones. One of which was the newest rendition of the Viaje Skull and Bones WMD. WMD first debuted in March of 2011, alongside [...]

Weekly News (March 12, 2012)

Editor’s Note: March is in full swing. As has been mentioned a few times here before, this should be no surprise. In halfwheel news, we would like to welcome Prometheus as our newest sponsor. For the next few days, Brook and I will be meeting at the super secret halfwheel offices in Dallas, before I [...]

News: Viaje Ships Five New Releases

Reports from retailers indicate that Viaje’s latest shipment of cigars has arrived. Included are a total of five different facings from a variety of Viaje’s lines. Viaje Super Shot 12 Gauge, the smaller version of Super Shot compared to the previously released 10 Gauge, was one of two already expected releases. Like Super Shot 10, [...]

Weekly News (March 5, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This is the one week of year where Cuba is allowed to dominate cigar news with no apologies. The XIV Festival del Habano took place last week and dominated the discourse of cigar news. There weren’t any major surprises, but there was quite a bit of news. March is quietly one of the [...]

Review: Viaje Platino Samurai Maduro (Prerelease)

A few weeks ago, we broke the news that the Viaje Platino Samurai Maduro had arrived in Minnesota at BURN Premium Cigar Specialists and Tobacco Grove. Tomorrow (March 5, 2012), pre-orders will ship from both stores, both of whom still have a limited supply in stock. Rather than rewriting history, here’s what we wrote a [...]

Review: Viaje Super Shot 10 Gauge

In September of 2011, Andre Farkas showed off a mysterious and previously unannounced Viaje project, Super Shot. Originally believed to be Shotgun Shells, details of Super Shot slowly emerged throughout winter. From the start, it was believed that Viaje would release two sizes: Super Shot 10 Gauge & Super Shot 12 Gauge, aptly borrowing the [...]

Review: Viaje White Label Project Winter Classic

In early February of 2012, Viaje announced that the first White Label Project of 2012 would be shipping with the Super Shot 10 Gauge and the Friends and Family. Dubbed the “Winter Classic,”, it is a 4 1/2 x 48 Rothschild that is an entirely new blend, and comes in bundles of 25. This is [...]

News: JFR 770 San Andrés & Other Updates From Paul Palmer

  Paul Palmer-Fernández, president of Casa Fernandez, recently sat down to talk about what’s new with the company as a whole, which includes the Danlí, Honduras-based Raíces Cubanas. Casa Fernandez/Tabacalera Tropical will be unveiling a Maduro version of its JFR 770 cigar, most likely in April. It will use a San Andrés Maduro wrapper as [...]

Review: Viaje Friends and Family

Last week, Viaje began shipping the long-awaited WLP Winter Classic and Super Shot 10. In addition, numerous retailers indicated that they were being sent a single box of Viaje Friends and Family. Even now, nearly a week after we broke the story and retailers began receiving boxes, there is almost nothing known about the latest [...]