After sensing that his usual practice of shipping cigars to stores in the days surrounding the annual IPCPR Convention & Trade Show might be costing him face time with retailers, Andre Farkas decided to change things up for 2015 and release a variety of cigars at the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, including a new limited edition at the show, the Skull and Bones Ten Ton Tess. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Viaje release if there wasn’t a bit of secrecy and intrigue with the release. The Skull and Bones Ten Ton Tess is being released in ceramic jars that come in three presentations with two—the black on white and white on black–holding one blend of the 6 x 54 cigar, a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, Dominican binder and fillers from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and the United States. 500 of each of those jars are being produced, with the cigars priced at $14.47 each. The other version, a black jar with gold skulls and crossbones, gets only 100 units and the blend isn’t being disclosed, nor is an MSRP being set. The only thing that is confirmed as remaining the same is the size, the use of ...
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