Micallef: 'A' Churchill Cigars

Micallef Cigars was founded in 2017 as a collaborative effort between Al Micallef, a successful entreprenuer, and Joel Gómez-Sanchez, the head of the Gómez-Sanchez cigar company since 1994. The roots of the Gómez-Sanchez brand stretch back to 1934 in Cuba, when Pedro Gómez, Joel's grandfather, established a tobacco company of his own, later passing on all of his knowledge to his grandson. This storied history lives on today through Micallef cigars, each hand rolled and blended by the Gómez-Sanchez family in their supervision of Micallef's factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.

Micallef's "A" blend stands for "Ambassador," the name of the company's community appreciation program which helped name the cigar, and it's not to be confused with the extra-long A vitola. Created in honor of the one-year anniversary of the Ambassador program, the "A" features Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers, a Sumatran binder, and a Nicaraguan Sumatra wrapper.