Nick Melillo’s El Güegüense brand will now have a maduro offering. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company will launch “The Wise Man” Maduro. The cigar becomes the first Mexican San Andres cigar to be released by Foundation Cigar Company. In addition to the Mexican San Andres wrapper, The Wise Man uses a blend of Nicaraguan […]
Highclere Castle is a world-renowned estate in Hampshire, England that is most recently known as the main filming location for the award-winning British Television period drama, Downton Abbey. What people may not know is this historic estate has a long tradition of cigar enjoyment. Now the owner of Highclere Castle has launched Highclere Cigar Company and is teaming […]
Foundation Cigar Company has become the latest cigar company to team up with Layne Coffee. The cigar company announced Foundation Coffee, a line of coffees designed to be paired with Foundation Cigars. Foundation Coffee will launch at the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show. According to Nick Melillo, founder of Foundation Cigar Company, “not only is the […]
Foundation Cigar Company has announced that it is releasing a limited number of Chest Collector Humidors. The project is meant to pay homage to the State of Connecticut, the home of company President Nicholas Melillo. The humidors will be available for purchase at the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas in July. “We wanted to honor those […]
When Nicholas Melillo launched Foundation Cigar Company in 2015, it was no surprise he chose to not to release a Connecticut Broadleaf cigar. While he was at Drew Estate, Melillo carried the unofficial title of “Chief of the Broadleafs”. Broadleaf is a wrapper he was intimately associated with while at Drew Estate working on such cigars […]
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 re-scoring […]
Lancero fans are about to have a new offering from Nicholas Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company. Today the company announced a limited production run of the El Güegüense Lancero will soon be hitting retailers. This is a cigar that was showcased this past summer at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show El Güegüense made its debut in 2015 as […]
There will be a third new line unveiled by Nick Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company. Today Melillo announced a new brand called Charter Oak that will pay homage to his home state of Connecticut by introducing two blends containing the signature wrappers grown in that state – namely Connecticut Shade and Connecticut Broadleaf. The Charter Oak […]
The Chief of the Broadleaf now has a Broadleaf of his own. Nicholas Melillo, who earned the name “Chief of the Broadleaf” (for his work with Broadleaf tobacco) during his tenure at Drew Estate is introducing a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper offering into his Foundation Cigar Company portfolio. The cigar will be called “The Tabernacle” and […]
Foundation Cigar Company, the company owned by Nicholas Melillo has named Rick Ardito’s its new Executive Brand Manager for its upcoming The Upsetters line. It’s a sort of reunion for Ardito and Melillo, as both had been longtime members of the Drew Estate team. Ardito served as a Partner and Executive Vice President of Public […]
