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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 [...]

Review: Viaje Skull and Bones MOAB

For those of you that don’t know… About a month ago, Viaje’s Facebook page started posting various updates that were all in teh same vein…Terms like “BE WARNED!” and “Widespread destruction is now being reported across the U.S.”…Along with the updates was a red Skull and Crossbones on Black (a play on the Original Skull [...]

Review: Viaje Exclusivo Tower Cigars 45th (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… As I said on Wednesday in the review of the Viaje Exclusivo Corona Gorda, there has been a growing trend in recent years for the makers of cigars to release the blends that they themselves (supposedly) smoke as limited releases for the rest of us to enjoy…Much like [...]

Review: Viaje White Label Project Candela

In continuing with our “Viaje Week” today we will be taking a look at the Viaje White Label Project Candela. The Candela wrapper once popular in the United States many decades ago has been recently made “cool” again by Dion Giolito of Illusione fame. While the Candela made by Illusione is a full production line [...]

Review: Viaje Exclusivo Corona Gorda

For those of you that don’t know… There has been a growing trend in recent years for the makers of cigars to release the blends that they themselves (supposedly) smoke as limited releases for the rest of us to enjoy…Much like Pete Johnson’s Black Label and Steve Saka’s Liga Privada #9, the Viaje Exclusivo blend [...]

Review: Viaje Exclusivo Short

Today we will be taking a look at the Viaje Exclusivo Short in our first review of “Viaje week”. There are so many Viaje LE’s that we felt we needed to review so we just decided to cram them all into one week for your viewing pleasure! The Viaje Short was rumored to be created [...]

Review: Viaje White Label Project (OR)

Today we will be taking a look at a Viaje small batch production, the Viaje White Label Project. At this point no one is unfamiliar with Viajes selling style, they focus on small batch production putting out limited runs often not any larger than 150 boxes and only releasing them to their top clients. Viaje [...]

Review: Viaje Platino Samurai (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2009, Viaje started the tradition of allowing two different retailers to choose a vitola of one of their two core line of cigars, the Oro and the Platino, with different numbers of boxes, usually between 30 and 60. Last year, Habana Smoke Shop decided on a short [...]

Review: Viaje Holiday Blend 2010 Petit Robusto

For those of you that don’t know, in December of 2009, Viaje Cigars released another of their small batch cigars dubbed the Holiday Blend and it was a 5×54 cigar with only 100 boxes of 30 cigars (so only 3,000 cigars total) released (you can see our review of the original release Holiday Blend HERE). About [...]

Review: Viaje Satori Zen

Sit down and relax, this is going to be a long review. During the IPCPR show in New Orleans in August, Viaje was showing off another one of their Limited Releases. Dubbed the “Satori”, which is named for a Japanese word that means “sudden spiritual enlightenment”, they were released last week, and sold out pretty [...]