On the eve of the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show came word that Nicholas Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company was releasing a maduro counterpart to its El Güegüense cigar called “The Wise Man”. El Güegüense was Foundation Cigar Company’s initial release. The name comes from the Nahuatl language (a Central American Indigenous language) which translates to “The Wise Man”. For […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Company Moves Distribution of The Upsetters In-House
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Foundation Cigar Company has announced it will now be handling distribution for its Upsetters brand. The Upsetters is Foundation’s infused brand of cigars that features Jamaican tobacco. For the past 15 months, distribution was being handled by Miami Cigar and Company. “Foundation Cigars has distributed The Upsetters brand internationally during the past year and decided […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Company Launching The Wise Man (El Güegüense) Maduro at 2017 IPCPR
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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 […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Co. to Produce and Distribute Cigar for Highclere Castle Cigar Co.
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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 […]
News: Foundation Cigar Company Teams with Layne Coffee to Launch Coffee Line
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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 […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Company to Release Collector’s Humidor
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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 […]
Cigar Review: The Tabernacle Toro by Foundation Cigar Company
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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 Review: El Güegüense Lancero by Foundation Cigar Company
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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 […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Company Releases El Güegüense Lancero
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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 […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Company Charter Oak to Launch at 2016 IPCPR
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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 […]