Viaje Private Keep

Description

Viaje Private Keep is Andre Farkas’s way of finally sharing the cigars he never quite found a home for — a rotating series of blends the Viaje founder himself has called “prized blends which haven’t yet found a home.”

Construction & Origin

This 6″ x 52 toro is a 100% Nicaraguan puro, finished in a Nicaraguan Corojo wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos. Private Keep debuted at the 2018 trade show with its first release, Light Blue, and has continued nearly every year since with new, ribbon-coded editions — Tangerine, Chartreuse, Lemon, Lime, and Ghost among them. True to Viaje’s tradition, every Private Keep cigar ships completely unbanded, with only the colored ribbon wrapped around the bundle distinguishing one release from the next. Farkas has said that for every blend that eventually reaches the market, at least five more don’t — Private Keep is where some of those finally see daylight.

Flavor Profile

Medium-full bodied, this Corojo-wrapped release delivers the kind of substantial, full-flavored character the leaf is known for — real depth and richness typical of Viaje’s boutique-forward blends, with reviewers across the broader Private Keep series noting wood, leather, spice, and earth in varying combinations depending on the specific edition.

Why It’s Sought After

Private Keep gives collectors genuine access to blends that would otherwise have stayed as Andre Farkas’s own private smokes — cigars developed but never given a full commercial release until now. With each colored edition produced in small, unbanded batches, this remains one of the more mysterious and specifically collector-driven corners of the entire Viaje catalog.