Chase this Discontinued Cigar | Nicholas Melillo | Foundation Cigar Co. | Box Press Ep. 130

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Foundation is no longer making the El Güegüense cigar nor the original Wise Man Maduro blend. In their place, find out what Nicholas Melillo, Foundation founder has in store for lovers of this popular boutique brand of thoughtfully blended, hand-rolled cigars.

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00:00 This is Box Press

00:12 Nick Melillo riffs on Robert Caldwell

02:58 Connecticut gets a bad rap

04:32 Shout out to Foundation's Olmec cigars and Cigar Jones, Minnetonka, Minnesota

06:01 Hiphop and cigars

07:01 Foundation music video by The Reminders filmed in A.J. Fernandez factory, on the fields

08:01 Worked cigar retail in Hamden, Connecticut

08:26 Discontinuing El Güegüense cigar

09:56 New Foundation cigars The Wise Man Maduro and Corojo

15:57 PCA 2025 trade show April 11-14 in New Orleans

16:04 Foundation Cigar's 10th anniversary is coming

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