Rocky Patel

Yes, it comes wrapped in gold foil. No, it doesn’t cost $100, or even $15.

In 2023, Rocky Patel joined a growing number of companies releasing cigars with ultra-premium price tags. The $100 Conviction has a blend that features fillers from the 2014 harvest of some of Rocky Patel’s farms, while the Mexican San Andrés wrapper gets aged in tercios to give it a unique flavor.

Many companies have produced cigars in celebration of the Year of the Dragon, but Rocky Patel Premium Cigars produced three vitolas for three different markets. They all use the same blend, but the vitola you’ll smoke it in depends on where you are in the world.

The regular production line includes a filler tobacco that Rocky Patel has never used in a blend before.

The unique 5 3/4 x 58/50 Bala size is a bulbous perfecto that is capped on both ends. This particular release was Rocky Patel’s TAA 2023 cigar.

It is not only the longest vitola in the line so far, it is also the most limited and the most expensive.

What’s better than one broadleaf tobacco in your blend? Two of them, judging by one of Rocky Patel’s recent releases.

The 1865 Project is a regular production, three-vitola line from Rocky Patel that was released late last year to commemorate the date of June 19, 1865, otherwise known as Juneteenth.

The Edge celebrates 20 years, sort of.

While the cigar might share its name with an island in the French West Indies, it’s a Honduran puro made in Danlí.

Proceeds from the NYTA Rocky Patel Empire are being donated to the New York Tobacconist Association to fund the organization’s efforts to help cigar shops in New York. Specifically, bills that would create a 50-cent tax cap for cigars sold in New York and another that would make it easier for cigar stores to serve alcohol.