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Made in Connecticut: Foundation Cigar and Dunn & Foster Farms tell us how they make their award-winning cigars

Foundation Cigar along with Dunn & Foster Farms harvests those crops, cures them and ships them to their factory in Nicaragua.

Rebecca Surran

Aug 13, 2024, 7:07 AM

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The Connecticut River valley is known for growing some of the finest tobacco wrapper leaves in the world.

Foundation Cigar along with Dunn & Foster Farms harvests those crops, cures them and ships them to their factory in Nicaragua.

Foundation Cigar founder Nicholas Melillo takes us to the fields and explains how he and his team makes their award-winning cigars.

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