In 2020, Nicholas Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company would celebrate five years in business. As is typically the case with many cigar companies, a commemorative cigar was released to mark the occasion. That cigar would be the El Güegüense 5 Year Aniversario. It’s an offshoot of the original El Güegüense brand, which also happened to be […]
Foundation Cigar Company has announced it has added David (5 x 54) and Goliath (5 x 58) perfecto sizes to its Tabernacle Havana Seed CT-142 line. The cigars will begin shipping to the U.S. retailers in October. The CT-142 line was originally introduced in 2019 and is named for its signature wrapper, the Havana Seed […]
2021 marked the sixth year since Nicholas Melillo launched Foundation Cigars. One can make the case this has been one of the quieter years for Melillo in terms of product innovation. It also was a year where Foundation did not attend any Trade Shows and one where Foundation has found a major fan of its […]
To say the Summer of ’21 for United Cigars was busy might be an understatement. This year might be the busiest year for United Cigars that I can remember in recent years. Over the past few years, United Cigars has been strengthening its portfolio and is offering cigars to appeal to a wide range […]
JR Cigars has announced the latest installment of its 50th Anniversary series will come from Foundation Cigar Company. The cigar is called the El Güegüense JR 50th Collector’s Edition. It’s a cigar based on Foundation’s El Güegüense 5 Year Aniversario blend. El Güegüense translates to “The Wise Man.” El Güegüense is the name of a literary work […]
Highclere Cigar Company is a project done between George Herbert, who is the 8th Earl of Carnarvon and the owner of the famed Highclere Castle Estate located in Hampshire, England; and Foundation Cigar Company’s Nicholas Melillo. In 2017, the first Highclere Castle cigar was released, an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapped cigar meant to be reminiscent […]
This month Foundation Cigar Company is releasing a new house blend for Ligero Tobacco House in Buford, Georgia – home of the only Foundation Cigar branded lounge in the U.S. “This project is long overdue and has been in the works for almost 2 years. The blend is very unique, elegant, and unlike anything I […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
For Episode 170 on the Prime Time Show, Nick Melillo makes his return to our show. On this episode, we’ll catch up on a lot of the happenings with Nick and Foundation Cigar Company since we last talked to him. We’ll learn a little more about Nick in our “Live True” segment, and finally in […]
