CRAFT Maquette Foreign & Domestic Coming in February

The fifth release in RoMa Craft Tobac’s CRAFT Maquette Series will go on sale next month.

It’s called CRAFT Maquette Foreign & Domestic, a 4 x 46 box-pressed petite corona. Skip Martin, co-founder of RoMa Craft Tobac, told halfwheel that the wrapper is a Sumatra-seed varietal but declined to talk about the rest of the blend.

Foreign & Domestic will have an MSRP of $10 per cigar and production is limited to 500 bundles of 10 cigars.

The name refers to two different things. First, it’s a reference to how RoMa Craft operates, both domestically and internationally. Martin lives in Nicaragua, where the company’s cigars are made, while Michael Rosales—the company’s other co-founder—lives in Austin, where its headquarters is based.

Second, it refers to the oaths that members of the military and other government officials—including the President—make, which says that they agree to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

CRAFT Maquette launched in 2023 as a way for RoMa Craft Tobac to release cigars of various blends, specifically to show a peak inside to the brand’s blending process. So far, the cigars have varied in most ways, though all the releases have been limited and have used similar packaging: craft paper bundles and ribbons as bands.