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News: Viaje Announces Super Shot 2013

Almost a year to the day from the initial announcement was made about a new addition to their growing portfolio, Viaje announced the first set of details about the 2013 release of the Super Shot via their Facebook page on Tuesday. A picture of the boxes shows that this year’s release will now come with two [...]

Weekly News (October 29, 2012)

Editor’s Note: halfwheel got a new feature, read about it here. Viaje Skull and Bones M?stery, V.O.R. #5 and V.P.R. #6 Arrive In Stores — Story here. Room101 OSOK 212 at Cigar Inn — And more details on the future of OSOK and Edgar Hoill here. Viaje Slates DES II For IPCPR 2013 — Story [...]

News: Viaje Prepares Next Round of Skull and Bones & Reservas

Multiple retailers have confirmed to halfwheel they have received invoices for Viaje’s next shipment, which includes three versions of the Skull and Bones, as well as the Viaje V.O.R. #5 and V.P.R. #6. Given the timing, the cigars should be available at some stores by the end of the week. Skull and Bones, a series introduced [...]

Redux: Viaje Skull and Bones White Daisy Cutter

In May of 2010, Viaje cigars released their first in what would eventually become an almost comically large number of Skull and Bones cigars. Named after a popular bomb that was retired in 2008, the Daisy Cutter was one of the cigars, along with the original release Exclusivo Robustos and the original release Holiday Blend that [...]

Weekly News (April 23, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This week we added a new sponsor, Defeat Prop 29. For those of you that don’t know, Prop 29 is a ballot measure in California that would raise the taxes on cigars from its current 31.73% to 54.89% of the wholesale prices. Prop 29 goes to vote on June 5, 2012 and you [...]

News: Viaje Shows off Skull and Bones Potato Masher

Andre Farkas showed off the newest Skull and Bones, Potato Masher. The cigar is banded as a part of the Skull and Bones White series and would appear to be the largest of the series. According to Farkas, the Potato Masher will be a 2013 release, but will be available at the Zombie events in [...]

Review: Viaje Skull and Bones White MOAB (2012)

On March 12, we reported that Viaje had shipped a number of new cigars to retailers, including three new entries in the Skull and Bones series: the WMD, the FOAB, and the cigar being reviewed today, the MOAB. This is the second installment of the MOAB, which stands for Mother of All Bombs, as well as Massive Ordnance [...]

Review: Viaje Skull and Bones White FOAB

In mid March of this year, Viaje released yet another slew of new cigars all at once to retailers. There were five new releases in all, bringing the total number of new Viaje Cigars to nine in less than a month. The FOAB, which stands for “Father of All Bombs”, and whose name’s origin is [...]

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 [...]

Review: Viaje Skull and Bones “?” Box-Pressed (2011)

Today we will be taking a look at an annual release from Viaje, the Skull and Bones “?”. In May 2010, Viaje released the very first Skull and Bones cigar called the Daisy Cutter, a 4 x 54 Petit Robusto made with a Nicaraguan Sun Grown Criollo wrapper and a heavy leaf Nicaraguan blend, only [...]