Earlier this year, Viaje announced that it would begin making cigars in the Dominican Republic at Abe Flores’ PDR Cigars. It started with the Exclusivo line moving to the factory and over the summer, the company announced that the latest entries in the Skull and Bones line would also be made at the factory. Ten Ton Tess continues the Skull and Bones theme of naming cigars after bombs with this reference to a World War II era British bomb. It also continues the lines theme of relatively dark cigars and some mystery in the form of undisclosed details. Viaje Ten Ton Tess is actually two different cigars, packaged in three different manners. Both blends measure 6 x 54, but the internals are different. A blend of Mexican San Andrés wrapper, Dominican binder and fillers from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and the United States is the regular version of the cigar, the one I’m reviewing. It’s packaged in jars of 19, which are available in both white and black form. Each of the black and white jars is limited to 500 units, although the cigars are the same between them. There’s another version, which features a gold skull and bones on the band and is ...
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