Viaje Path of Totality

Viaje Path of Totality

Viaje Path of Totality is a full bodied box pressed Toro released under the Viaje White Label Project (WLP) series in May 2025. Blended by Viaje founder Andre Farkas and wrapped in a dark, oily Mexican San Andrés Maduro leaf over Nicaraguan binder and fillers, Path of Totality delivers the small batch, high intensity character that has made Viaje’s WLP releases enduring favorites among serious cigar collectors.

Key benefits and features

• White Label Project release: Produced in 200 boxes of 30 cigars, released in May 2025. A collector’s expression for Viaje enthusiasts.
• Mexican San Andrés Maduro wrapper: A dark, oily, near black wrapper delivers rich chocolate, espresso, and earthy sweetness while also contributing the dramatic visual character that gives this cigar its eclipse inspired name.
• All Nicaraguan binder and filler: Nicaraguan tobaccos underneath provide the pepper, spice, and full bodied intensity that pair naturally with the darker San Andrés top leaf for a powerful, flavor forward smoke.
• Box pressed Toro format: A 6 x 54 box press offers crisp edges, a dense pack, and a controlled burn that concentrate the flavors and make the cigar a pleasure to hold through a 90 minute session.
• Designed by Andre Farkas: Every WLP release is blended by Viaje’s founder as a test bed for new ideas, with the best concepts sometimes graduating to permanent lines after strong consumer feedback.
• Full bodied, full flavored intensity: Reviewers describe a medium to full experience that builds into full tilt strength by the second third, with layers of dark chocolate, espresso, pepper, cinnamon, and dark fruit that reward slow, attentive smoking.

Detailed description

Viaje’s White Label Project was created to give founder Andre Farkas a sandbox, a place to test new blends, shapes, and experimental ideas without the commitment of a permanent production line. Most WLP releases consist of only a few hundred bundles or boxes. Path of Totality shipped in May 2025 in 200 boxes of 30 cigars, drawing interest from collectors who track every Viaje release as it lands.

The cigar takes its name from the thin strip of geography where a total solar eclipse is visible, the so called path of totality, and the wrapper earns that reference. The Mexican San Andrés Maduro leaf arrives dark, oily, and nearly opaque in color, with moderate tooth and a clean seam that reveals Viaje’s characteristic attention to rolling detail. The aroma off the wrapper is intoxicating, carrying dark chocolate, bright honeysuckle, tangerine, rose and lavender florals, tamarind, black pepper, cinnamon, coffee toffee, cedar, and rich earth. The cold draw echoes that complexity with black cherries, fudge brownies, black walnuts, black baking spices, pepper, and black espresso.

From first light the smoke runs thick and oily with an earthy base that pulls out black cherries, dark cocoa, espresso, nuts, black pepper, and burnt oak. The first third sits at medium strength while stacking early complexity on top of the familiar Nicaraguan Maduro template, with a wide range of secondary notes that tempt the smoker into puffing faster than they should. The second third is where Path of Totality earns its reputation. Strength jumps from medium to full tilt, and the flavor deepens into dark chocolate, creaminess, black pepper, espresso, cinnamon, a rich fried lard sweetness, cereal like toasted grain, and fresh blackberries. The final third holds that intensity and adds leather, charred oak, and a long finish that rewards the unhurried smoker. Construction throughout is typical Viaje quality, with a straight burn, firm ash, and an easy draw from light to nub.

Specs

Released in May 2025, Path of Totality was produced in 200 boxes of 30 cigars. A collector’s expression for Viaje enthusiasts who appreciate bold, high-intensity Nicaraguan blends under a San Andrés wrapper.