Nick Melillo

Nick Melillo founded Foundation Cigar Company after years at Drew Estate, including work around Liga Privada. He left that corporate campus and started Foundation as his own blender brand. Tabernacle, Olmec, El Güegüense, Wise Man, and Guardian of the Farm are the lines people mean by Foundation.

He does not own a single house factory. Tabernacle and Olmec-era work is closely tied to A.J. Fernandez / San Lotano. Other Foundation cigars have used My Father and Joya de Nicaragua. Melillo is a brand owner shopping Estelí's best floors, not an STG employee and not Jonathan Drew's successor at La Gran Fábrica.