Tabernacle Cigars came from their founder’s devoted zeal for his home state’s incredible tobacco and a need to share it with the entire world. Nick Melillo, the brand’s founder, is a proud native of Connecticut and a big believer in the tobacco grown there. Seeking to spread the good news of Connecticut leaves, he created the Tabernacle brand. The results are a glorious smoke that manages to provide opulent flavor from the first draw all the way down to the nub. Sporting tobacco from AJ Fernandez’s personal farm in La Soledad, Tabernacle cigars are cradled in a decadent, oily Maduro Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Sparking any of its sizes up offers the deep and abiding taste of cocoa, salt, pepper, oak, and leather. The blend already received a well-earned 90-point rating from the experts at Cigar Aficionado.