Las Cumbres Tabaco will be releasing its second line at the upcoming IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, with Swedish mythology behind the brand and Emma Viktorsson behind the blend. Freyja gets its name from the Viking goddess of beauty and fertility and chief of the Valkyrie, the female figures who choose who lives and dies in battle. Viktorsson called Freyja the bridge between her ancestry and the cigar countries. The new cigar is coming out of Tabacalera Palma, but the blend was developed by Viktorsson and Geraldito Perez, the production manager at the factory. She was quick to mention to halfwheel that neither Jochy Blanco or her husband, José Blanco, were involved with the blending process, saying that after more than 10 years in the premium cigar she felt confident enough to produce her own blend, and wanted to see just what “Emma’s blend” would be. That blend uses a Dominican criollo ’98 wrapper, while the binder is a Mexican San Andrés leaf and the filler uses Dominican criollo ’98, Dominican Piloto Cubano and Nicaraguan tobacco grown in Estelí. Viktorsson said that the Piloto Cubano comes from double primings, while all of the Dominican tobacco comes from the La Canela farm ...
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