Graduate isn’t a word that gets used a lot around Thanksgiving, yet that’s exactly the word that was used to describe this year’s release of the Viaje Stuffed Turkey. It was a term used by Andre Farkas at the 2014 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, and when the announcement was made that the line would return for 2014, a company spokesman repeated that the Stuffed Turkey was the first cigar to “graduate” from Viaje’s White Label Project (WLP) series into a line that would become a regular—albeit annual—release, complete with its own unique band and packaging. The Stuffed Turkey line debuted in Nov. 2011 as a WLP release after a conversation with Jerry Cruz and Brian Hewitt of Stogie Review as a way to build upon Viaje’s seasonal and holiday-themed releases. In 2012, the company added a second version that used a maduro wrapper, and the two cigars became known as Stuffed Turkey White Meat and Stuffed Turkey Dark Meat, respectively. For this year’s release, both versions return in the same 5 x 58 vitola as last year’s, a slightly smaller size than the 60 ring gauge that the line started out with and used in 2012. Retailers began receiving them ...
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