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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 [...]

Weekly News (February 27, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This past week halfwheel launched its own blog. While the posts will not appear on the front page, they will show up if you subscribe to the RSS feed and/or get updates via e-mail. As explained here, the purpose of the blog will be to better have a dialogue with the readers about [...]

News: Viaje to Release Platino Samurai Maduro

Since late 2011, the idea of a Viaje Samurai Maduro has been floating around as a possible release for BURN Premium Cigar Specialist’s fifth anniversary. Earlier this week, James Succio of BURN confirmed that 99 boxes of a Maduro Samurai had arrived in Minnesota, a few months before the store’s actual anniversary. The Samurai is [...]

Redux: Viaje Zombie

Back in April of 2011, Andre Farkas of Viaje Cigars attended an event at Tobacco Grove in Minnesota. Right before the event Charlie broke the news that there would be a new cigar with a new blend AND a new vitola that would be sold at the event.   _______________________________________________________________________   Here is what I [...]

Review: Viaje Platino Samurai (2012)

For those of you that don’t know… As with a lot of his Limited Edition releases, Andre Farkas of Viaje Cigars has once again released the “Samurai”, a limited edition Corona Gorda in the Platino blend. _______________________________________________________________________   This is what I said about the Samurai in the review in 2010: In 2009, Viaje started the [...]

News: Viaje Platino Samurai (2012)

This hasn’t been a secret for a while now, but the latest version of the Viaje Platino Samurai has arrived at BURN Premium Cigar Specialist in Burnsville, MN. The cigar is actually identical to the version that shipped to Tobacco Grove in late 2010 taking the Platino blend and putting it in the Corona Gorda [...]

Review: Viaje Zombie (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Last week, it became known that Andre was going to be at an event at one of the best stores in the country, Tobacco Grove in Minnesota. There were rumors at the time that Viaje would have an exclusive and obviously limited cigar at the event with a [...]

Weekly News (April 18, 2011)

Who said April was a slow cigar news month? After the jump is a massive news post with perhaps more release announcements than any other week besides IPCPR. I’m not sure what’s going on in the middle of May, but there sure are a lot of cigars coming out then. Anyways, after the jump, Viaje, [...]

News: Viaje Zombie (Exclusive)

Andre just put this up on his Facebook page, so I guess this is now on the record cigar news. Another Viaje will be out as Andre does two events next week in Minnesota. It should be noted that rarer than the cigars themselves is probably the fact that Andre is doing two events in [...]