基石雪茄公司成立已经10周年了，创始人尼克·梅利洛（Nick Melillo）将在下周推出10周年纪念版雪茄，纪念这个里程碑。

这款产品是所罗门型号，最粗处58环径，7英寸长，委托尼加拉瓜的A.J. Fernandez代工生产的。

雪茄的茄衣是康涅狄格烟叶，颜色特别黑，梅利洛介绍说这种烟叶是阔叶和哈瓦那种子烟叶的杂交品种。茄套是巴西的马特菲娜（Mata Fina）烟叶，茄芯是尼加拉瓜烟叶，包括三个产区：埃斯特利（Estelí）、贾拉帕（Jalapa）、孔德加（Condega）。这些尼加拉瓜烟叶是费尔南德斯自己种植的。

雪茄是每盒10支装，在美国的售价是每支35美元，一共生产2000盒。此外，还将有一款每盒20支的包装面向雪茄收藏者销售，每盒700美元，一共生产750盒。两种包装盒都绘制着圣经里圣乔治屠龙的故事。

9月10日，基石雪茄公司将在康涅狄格州的索辛顿（Southington）举办雪茄的发布会，随后，雪茄将向全美范围内配货。

Now that Foundation Cigar Co. has been in business for a decade, owner Nick Melillo is celebrating the accomplishment with the limited-edition 10 Year Aniversario, launching next week. It’s a large, Salomon-style smoke made in Nicaragua by A.J. Fernandez featuring a hybrid wrapper grown in Connecticut. 

With their striking curves and tapers, these shapely Aniversarios measure 7 inches long, widening out to a 58 ring gauge at the fattest point. They’re notably dark thanks to a wrapper from the Connecticut River Valley—a leaf that Melillo says is a hybrid between broadleaf and Habano seeds. Underneath is a Brazilian Mata Fina binder and an entirely Nicaraguan filler blend of tobacco from Estelí, Jalapa and Condega. All the Nicaraguan components were grown by Fernandez. 

The 10 Year Aniversario has a suggested retail price of $35 each, or $350 per box of 10. Foundation is only producing 2,000 of these boxes. An even more limited, 20-count box geared toward collectors will also be released for $700 (750 boxes total). Both are adorned with the biblical image of St. George slaying a dragon. Melillo tells Cigar Aficionado that he only has part of the planned production run in inventory and anticipates it selling out quickly. The rest of the cigars are aging and will be released incrementally.  

Foundation is holding a launch party for the cigar at Micky Blake’s in Southington, Connecticut, on September 10. The cigars will ship nationally shortly after.