Foundation Cigar Company to Ship Debut Brand
El Güegüense / “The Wise Man”
Foundation Cigar Company announced its debut brand at this year’s International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association Show in New Orleans and will begin shipping to retailers throughout the country over the next week and a half.
El Güegüense (pronounced: L – Wha –When-say) is an indigenous word meaning, “The Wise Man.” The brand is based on a Nicaraguan folklore masterpiece and will be a Nicaraguan Puro featuring carefully selected fillers from vintage crop years.
El Güegüense will be produced in limited numbers at the Tobacos Valle de Jalapa, Tabasa, facility in Nicaragua under the watchful eye of Nicholas Melillo who hand selects each bale of tobacco used in El Güegüense. The capa and capote are Nicaraguan Corojo 99 with the former coming from Finca Puntalito in Jalapa and the latter from Finca San Jose in Jalapa. The tripa in El Güegüense is Nicaraguan criollo and corojo from Esteli and Jalapa from vintage crop year tobaccos 2011 and 2012.
The cigars will be available in twenty-five count boxes in five traditional sizes. The varieties will include a 5 ½ x 50 Robusto, a 5 5/8 x 46 Corona Gorda, a 6 x 56 Toro Huaco, a 7 x 48 Churchill, and a 6 ¼ x 52 Torpedo. The cigars will be priced in the retail range of $9-$13 USD.
Foundation will be doing its official launch at Mickey Blake’s Tobacconist in Milford, Connecticut on the 26th ofSeptember from 6pm – 12pm and will be at Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire on October 10, 2015.
