The new Rocky Patel Gold Label is arriving in stores this week.

Despite the name, gold packaging and some of the company’s high-priced new releases, Gold Label will retail for $11-13 per cigar with the Petit Corona size coming in at less than $10 per cigar. Blend-wise, it uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over dual binders—Connecticut broadleaf and Connecticut shade—and fillers from the Estelí and Jalapa regions of Nicaragua.

It is offered in four sizes:

  • Rocky Patel Gold Label Half Corona (3 1/2 x 46) — $9.70 (Box of 20, $194)
  • Rocky Patel Gold Label Robusto (5 1/2 x 50) — $11 (Box of 20, $220)
  • Rocky Patel Gold Label Toro (6 1/2 x 54) — $12 (Box of 20, $240)
  • Rocky Patel Gold Label Sixty (6 x 60) — $13 (Box of 20, $260)

This blend is produced at the company’s Tabacalera Villa Cuba S.A. (TAVICUSA) factory in Estelí.

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