RoMa Craft’s Foreign & Domestic Returning Late this year
CRAFT Maquette Foreign & Domestic Returns
The CRAFT Maquette Foreign & Domestic, released last year as part of RoMa Craft Tobac’s CRAFT Maquette Series, is returning to shelves this fall. The first run totaled 500 bundles of 10, or 5,000 cigars in all. This is the first time a cigar in the series has gotten a second release.
Skip Martin, co-founder of RoMa Craft Tobac, liked the cigar so much that he personally placed an order with the Nica Sueño factory, which he also co-owns, for more cigars to smoke himself. Rather than keeping all of them, some will be sent to stores.
Blend and Format
The format is a 4 x 46 box-pressed petite corona. When the cigar was first released, Martin declined to publicly disclose most of the blend information. He later revealed that the Foreign & Domestic and the Riverside 15th Anniversary use the same blend as each other and share a blend with the upcoming CroMagnon Visigoth, which is also due out later this year. It’s almost the same blend, though.
All three cigars share the same internal blend: an Indonesian Besuki binder, corojo and criollo fillers from the Jamastrán Valley in Honduras, and tobacco from Condega, Nicaragua. All three also use an Ecuadorian hybrid wrapper, but the hybrids are slightly different, with Martin saying the Visigoth wrapper will be heavier. He told halfwheel the wrappers are close enough that he believes it would be unlikely someone could tell the two apart. One of the Visigoth vitolas is also a 4 x 46 petite corona, so a direct comparison will be possible at some point.
Pricing and Production
Foreign & Domestic keeps its $10 per cigar MSRP. Production has increased to 1,200 bundles of 10 cigars for the second release, up from 500 for the first.
About the CRAFT Maquette Series
The CRAFT Maquette Series is a loose collection of different blends, some of which are complete one-offs, while others have direct ties to regular production cigars. The cigars share similar packaging: craft paper bundles with colored ribbons.
The name refers to the company’s operations: Martin lives in Nicaragua, where the cigars are made, while co-founder Michael Rosales lives in Austin, where the company’s headquarters is located. It also refers to the oaths taken by members of the military and other government officials, including the President, in which they agree to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”