Las Cumbres Freyja Review

Freyja
Made by: Las Cumbres
Country: Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua
Vitola: 5 3/4 by 42

Las Cumbres cigars puts out amazing blends. Period. They are harder to find and less known among the cigar community but I would recommend trying one of you come across one of their offerings. This is a newer cigar by the company, the last one reviewed was the Seniorial 65th which scored very high. Naturally that gives me high expectations for this cigar. Let’s see what it has to offer with a Las Cumbres Freyja Review.

Prelight

The seams blend right into the wrapper. Small to medium veins and a surprisingly low skilled cap for the quality of cigar. The band absolutely adds to this cigar, beautiful art. Not much tooth to the wrapper. The foot is giving off a light oak mixed with grass note, really it reminds me of the smell of a woodshop. It will be interesting to see how that develops once this gets started. Easy cut, no issues with the cap. Just a bit of loose tobacco to wipe away. The prelight draw shows lots of woodsy notes just like the foot. I am expecting high complexity, let’s see if the flavors are distinct enough once lit. I have a feeling they will be well blended and mixed very thoroughly.

1/3

I don’t understand what this company does right, but they are wonderful at blending. Really clean grass and a floral note like I have never experienced. I would venture to say that I feel like I am smoking a rose. That center note is unbelievable, and the finish comes around with a sharp white pepper and a tangy note that I can best relate to nerds candy. Extremely thick smoke and medium smoke production. Great mouth feel, there is some pepper bite but it is white pepper bite, not the usual red. This is a delicious profile, the ash is as white as it gets and the burn line is near perfect. Its almost hard to pick out all the notes, wonderful complexity.

2/3

I almost forgot to address the body, it is coming in at a medium to full and the strength is at a medium. The balance is good but even if the strength was matching body it would be hard to discredit the cigar due to the absolute uniqueness of the profile. The front has lost a bit of complexity, leather and the floral note are present now. Rose is still good summary of that floral note. The tangy nerd candy note is coming right on the center and marks the profiles transition to the sharp white pepper that now has an undertone of clean cedar. The burn line is still almost flawless, and the smoke production and thickness have held at a wonderful balance of thick smoke and medium production.

3/3

There is something else I need to say, the band glue can be an issue sometimes and with a band this beautiful you don’t want to ruin it. They took that into account, the band comes off with no issue at all. As I am getting to the end of the cigar the flavors seem to be blending. The front and center are a pretty balanced mix of white/rep pepper, rose, and leather. There has been the appearance of that red pepper, just a additive of the complexity dropping. The finish has changed a lot though it is now a sharp and clean cedar and dry macadamia nut with some cream. So even when this cigar was diminishing in complexity, it was certainly still there.

Smoke Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Conclusion: 93

Yeah this is a great cigar and something that is worth searching out. Las Cumbres cigars is a great company, you may have a bit of a harder time finding this one. However, it is worth it to see those unique flavors that are present. The cigar shined through the first half and then lost some luster but it was still a great cigar. Hope you enjoyed this review and I should have a couple other harder to find offerings coming up in the line up for reviews soon.