Among the most famous cigar smokers ever, the Austrian father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, ranks near the very top. He’s right there with Winston Churchill, Castro, and a few other legends of the leaf. While he is remembered for insinuating that so much of what goes on inside the mind is sexual symbolism, history quotes him (perhaps apocryphally) as saying that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
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But it doesn’t have to reduce the smoking experience to think of it that way. These cigars are high-quality stogies that will be giving us quite a lot to think about in the coming years as this new brand grows.
Naturally, this isn’t Freud’s own cigar company. He’s been gone since 1939. Instead, this company was launched by two partners. One is a businessman (venture capitalist David Stadnyk) and the other is a longtime cigar man: Luis Torres, formerly the CEO of Casa de Montecristo and head of retail for Davidoff of Geneva. Casa de Montecristo is the retail operation that runs dozens of cigar shops across America, not the cigar maker producing Montecristos.
The Freud cigars brand is owned by a company called Agape (pronounced ah-GAH-pay) Lifestyle, which aims to produce more than just cigars as time goes on. “Agape” is an ancient Greek word that philosophers and theologians obsess over. It means something like unconditional love, and we hope that these high flying cigar men search deep in their hearts and find the care for their fans and tobacco that have made so many companies successful before them.
The first release from Freud cigars is the SuperEgo blend. It combines Nicaraguan and Dominican tobacco, a Sumatran binder, and an Ecuadorian Corojo wrapper. Sounds like they’re going for some serious flavor, and we wish them well on their venture as it leaves the ground and goes up into white, puffy clouds of smoke.
Which in our business, is a good thing.
Please browse our selection of Freud cigars at your leisure.
