Gellis Family Cigars Launches With Marevas, Saunter

A year ago, Kyle Gellis, the founder of Warped, began posting about a new brand on social media: Gellis Cigars. A year later, that project is now in stores, albeit with a slightly different name.

The name is now Gellis Family Cigars, though the concept appears to be quite similar: a brand from the Warped founder that isn’t branded as Warped. The first cigars from Gellis Family Cigars began shipping to stores last month: Marevas, which is debuting in a single 5 1/8 x 43 size. The company declined to talk blend details to halfwheel, though DROP Cigar Club—a retail store and membership club operated by Kyle Gellis—lists the blend as a habano 2000 rosada wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

Marevas has an MSRP of $11 per cigar and is sold in boxes of 25. It is a regular production item.

In June, the second Gellis Family Cigars line is expected to ship: Saunter. It is a 5 1/4 x 48 robusto that will have an MSRP of $15 and will be sold in boxes of 12.

Again, the company declined to share blend details with halfwheel, though, according to Cigar Dojo, it will use an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over an undisclosed binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

Saunter is also a regular production cigar.

Both blends are produced at TABACALERA LA iSLA in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. While the lines do not have any Warped branding, they are distributed by Warped.