The second full line from Las Cumbres Tabaco will be arriving at U.S. retailers this week, as Emma Viktorsson’s Freyja began shipping last Thursday. Select retailers in Sweden have had the cigar for a few weeks, and Viktorsson said it’s been met with solid reviews, telling halfwheel that the first shipment was sold out within a week and the third batch is currently en route. While Las Cumbres Tabaco is known as the home of José Blanco’s Señorial line, Viktorsson made it clear that she did not blend Freyja with the assistance of her husband or with Jochy Blanco, owner of Tabacalera Palma where the cigar is produced. Instead, she worked with Geraldito Perez, the production manager at the factory, and crafted a cigar with a Dominican criollo ’98 wrapper, Mexican San Andrés binder along with filler tobaccos consisting of Dominican criollo ’98, Dominican Piloto Cubano and Nicaraguan tobacco grown in Estelí. The brand gets its name from Swedish mythology, in particular the Viking goddess of beauty and fertility that was chief of the Valkyrie, the female figures who choose who lives and dies in battle. When the cigar was announced, Viktorsson said that Freyja was the bridge between her ancestry ...
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