Rocky Patel Aged Limited Rare Second Edition Toro Cigar - 1 Single

Length: 6 1/2"
Ring Gauge: 52
Strength: Medium

Packaging: 1 Single
Vitola: Toro
Smoking Time: 55 Minutes

Wrapper: Mexico San Andres
Binder: Honduran
Filler: Honduran

ROCKY PATEL

In an industry built on name recognition and reputation, Rocky Patel’s passion has brought his luxury brand to heights unseen by most boutique cigar manufacturers. His hard work and long hours have been paying off in big ways.

In the early 1990s, the premium cigar market began to drastically change. Rocky Patel lived and worked in Los Angeles as an entertainment and product liability lawyer. Through a friend, Rocky was introduced to cigars and became instantly fascinated by them! He joined the Grand Havana Club in LA as one of its founding members.

While dabbling in various investment ventures, Rocky was approached with a business plan to manufacture cigars. It was still the early days of the cigar boom, and Rocky was still apprehensive. However, the investment was made, and the inaugural Indian Tabac cigars rolled in Honduras began to flourish on the American market.

While his friends and colleagues had said, “Don’t be foolish, you’ll never make it in the cigar industry,” Rocky had already completed the first step of his journey. In 1996 at the RTDA trade show in Cincinnati, Ohio, Indian Tabac Cigar Co. had arrived. People flocked to the booth to purchase hundreds of these new, brightly packaged sticks. Rocky felt that it was up to the young companies to come into the market place with fresh ideas, bold packaging and fuller cigars. With his eye-popping packaging, Patel has gone against the grain and the strategy certainly paid off.

In 2003, Rocky changed the company’s marketing direction by emphasizing on branding himself. The first step was changing the company name from Indian Tabac Cigar Co. to Rocky Patel Premium Cigars. Rocky’s first brand featuring his name, the Rocky Patel Vintage cigars, has become his flagship brand.

Since the company’s new direction began, Rocky has launched numerous top-selling brands , however Rocky Patel is far from satisfied - He’ll never rest on his laurels, for there’s more perfection to achieve!

AGED LIMITED RAR SECOND EDITION

In 2016, Rocky blended a cigar featuring an exquisite San Andrés wrapper. Deciding that this blend would develop even further with age, he ordered a short production run of120,000 cigars. The cigars were laid to rest in an aging room, locked away for two years. 

This medium bodied cigar delivers notes of cocoa and graham cracker intertwined with hints of espresso.

94 / 100

"...This box-pressed Toro has all the sweet, satisfying qualities of malted chocolate and vanilla bean, balanced by an uplifting hint of fresh, shredded coconut. Only 2,000 boxes of this size were created, but Patel will be releasing these smokes in batches as they come of age in his Nicaraguan factory..."

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