Gellis Family Cigars Debuts With Two New Brands
Kyle Gellis, the man behind Warped Cigars, has created a new company and it bears his family name. Called Gellis Family Cigars, the subsidiary was formed to create a new line of brands which will not bear the name Warped. Instead, they will be lines sold under the family label. Gellis Family Cigars will debut at this month’s PCA trade show in Las Vegas with two brands: Marevas and Saunter.
“I have been working in the premium cigar industry for 17 years, blending cigars and developing and growing Warped since I was 18 years old,” Gellis says. “Along that journey, I always noticed something was missing from the portfolio of work. When I made the decision to create a brand with my family’s name on it, a new path and tradition was set.”
Boldly banded with a G on the cigar, the Marevas is a corona that measures 5 1/8 inches by 43 ring gauge. It’s made with a Habana 2000 wrapper from Ecuador, Nicaraguan binder and filler from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Packaged in slide-lid boxes of 25, each corona has a closed foot and will retail for $11 each. According to Gellis, the cigars are aged an entire year before being boxed. These will ship to retailers in April.
The other cigar being shown at PCA, Saunter, is a 5 1/4-by-48 robusto made with a Connecticut-seed wrapper from Ecuador, Ecuadoran binder and filler from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Shipping this summer, Saunters come in boxes of 12 and will retail for $15 apiece.
Both Saunter and the Marevas are made in the Dominican Republic at Tabacalera La Isla (stylized as LA iSLA). While Gellis Family Cigars is positioned as its own company, the cigars under the new label will be distributed by Warped. Gellis intends to add sizes to both brands later in the year and in early 2025.
For ratings on the new brands, see future issues of Cigar Insider.
