Foundation Shipping Charter Oak Pasquale & Pegnataro To Retailers

Two new lines for Foundation Cigar Co.’s Charter Oak series are on their way to retailers.

The Charter Oak Pasquale and Charter Oak Pegnataro are named after the grandfathers of company founder Nicholas Melillo. Both are debuting in a single 5 1/2 x 48 corona vitola, but the two lines are made with different blends.

The Charter Oak Pegnataro uses a Connecticut shade wrapper, while the Charter Oak Pasquale uses a broadleaf wrapper. Both cigars use Nicaraguan tobacco for the binder and filler, but the blends are described as being different from one another, as well as stronger in body than the other Charter Oak blends.

Each cigar is priced at $13 per cigar and $156 for a box of 12 cigars. Production is limited to 500 boxes of each blend on a quarterly basis. Like the company’s recently-released Metapa, both new Charter Oak blends are rolled at Tabacalera AJ Fernandez Cigars de Nicaragua S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua.

In an announcement published on Cigar Aficionado, Foundation confirmed that boxes of both cigars began shipping on Monday.