Foundation Menelik Petite Robusto 4"1/2 * 52

The Foundation Menelik Petite Robusto is a medium-strength, box-pressed stick that originally was available as an event only blend. Now, it’s available at select Foundation Cigar retailers but as a small batch release. Only 1,000 boxes of 12 cigar will be shipped per quarter. A dark, sweet, Mexican San Andres maduro wrapper is draped over a Nicaraguan Corojo binder and a filler composed of tobaccos from three of Nicaragua’s top tobacco producing regions: Condega, Jalapa, and Esteli. The Foundation Menelik’s flavor profile consists of pepper, earth, and oak. The Foundation Menelik is handmade in Nicaragua.

• Brands
  Foundation Menelik

  The Foundation Menelik is a medium-strength cigar that is handmade in Nicaragua. It has a dark Mexican San Andres maduro wrapper that is draped over a Nicaraguan Corojo binder and long-filler tobaccos from Nicaragua. The Foundation Menelik’s flavor profile consists of pepper, earth, and oak.
• Cigar Shape
  Robusto

  The Robusto is a short Churchill size, traditionally 5 to 5.5 inches by a 50 ring gauge.
• Cigar Section
  Box-Pressed (Square)

  A box pressed cigar is a cigar that has a square shape. Originally, this shape came from the practice of packing round cigars tightly in cardboard boxes which are then compacted using a manual press. The cigars are thus pressed into each other and become a "squarish" or semi-square shape. Today, cigar makers use square shaped molds or a wooden trunk press for their box pressed cigars, achieving a more defined square section.
• Cigar Length
  4"1/2

  This cigar is 4"1/2 inches long, or 114.3 mm.
• Origin
  Nicaragua

  Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
  Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  52

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 52, so his diameter is 52/64 inches or 20.57 mm.
• Strength
  Medium
• Wrapper Color
  Maduro

  Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
  Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).
• Single Packaging
  Cellophane
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  Aganorsa

  Casa Fernandez is one of Central America's largest tobacco growers. Their factory, Tabacalera Tropical, is located in Esteli, Nicaragua and employs hundreds of cigar rollers.
• Cigar Wrapper
  Mexican San Andres Maduro

  The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
  Mexican tobacco is very dark and the best leaves can be used as maduro wrappers. San Andres Maduro is a thick, medium bodied dark leaf, also called San Andres Morron. Like Connecticut Broadleaf, San Andres Maduro is stalk cut and used for binder and wrapper.
• Cigar Binder
  Nicaraguan Corojo

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Nicaraguan Corojo ’99 tobacco was first used as a wrapper in Cuba during the late 20th Century. It was then grown in Ecuador and eventually in Nicaragua. Primarily, it is used as a wrapper, but it is also used as a binder. It is regarded for its spiciness.
• Cigar Filler
  Condega

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

  Esteli

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

  Jalapa

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

  Nicaragua

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.