At this year’s Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show in New Orleans, Meerapfel Cigar announced the launch of the 2025 Création Liberté, a special premium cigar blend created to support cigar rights movements and advocacy groups worldwide. Proceeds from the 2025 Création Liberté will be donated to the PCA’s Industry Defense Fund, which supports the association’s ongoing advocacy efforts.
“We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with the Meerapfel team on Création Liberté and have the honor of being the recipient of proceeds from the sale of this unique product this year. The cigar is a symbol of our mission, and the proceeds will support our advocacy efforts,” comments Joshua Habursky, executive director of the PCA.
“The greatest threat to our industry is the one that we have been facing over the past years: the threat of regulation. Thank goodness we have organizations such as the PCA that stand up for the consumers, the manufacturers, and the farmers. They do the dirty work: Educating and reminding our leadership of the importance of premium cigars for our societies and quality of life. It is people such as the PCA members that help us defend our craft and the future generations of our industry; We are eternally grateful. This is our tradition, and we will fight to protect it,” commented Jeremiah E. Meerapfel.
“As one global cigar family, we will protect our passion and heritage. Création Liberté shall contribute to its prophecy: preserving our liberty,” adds Reinhard Pohorec, vice president of Meerapfel Cigar.
Création Liberté 2025 is hand rolled exclusively in a 6 x 50 Toro vitola. The cigar features a vintage Cameroon wrapper, a signature “sacred leaf” grown by the Meerapfel family. It is presented in a Paulownia-wood chest that holds two cigars. Only 613 of these sets are being released globally. Each Création Liberté 2025 set has a suggested retail price of $249 before applicable taxes.
– Photography courtesy of Joe Tampa Photo, Meerapfel Cigars