Rocky Patel Increasing Prices for Some Cigars on April 1, 2024

Rocky Patel Premium Cigars, Inc. has announced that it will be increasing the prices for some of its lines, effective April 1, 2024. In a letter sent to retailers, Rocky Patel said the changes were being made “due to increased costs associated with the production, tobacco, and transportation of our products.”

Around 40 percent of the company’s lines will increase, with the increases ranging from 3-5 percent. The lines that will have a price increase are as follows:

• Decade — 5 Percent
• Edición Unica — 5 Percent
• Grand Reserve — 5 Percent
• LB1 — 5 Percent
• Legends 52 by Ray Lewis — 5 Percent
• Number 6 — 5 Percent
• Seed to Smoke — 5 Percent
• Sun Grown — 4 Percent
• The Edge — 3 Percent
• The Edge 10th Anniversary A-10 — 5 Percent
• The Edge 20th Anniversary — 5 Percent
• The Edge Candela — 3 Percent
• The Edge Connecticut — 3 Percent
• The Edge Sumatra — 3 Percent

The following lines are not increasing in price:

• A.L.R Second Edition
• Bold by Nish Patel
• Catch 22
• Catch 22 Connecticut
• Cigar Smoking World Championship
• Conviction
• Dark Star
• DBS
• Disciple
• Fifteenth Anniversary
• Fifty-Five
• HR500 by Gary Sheffield
• It’s a Boy / It’s a Girl
• Java
• Quarter Century
• Sixty
• Special Edition
• Sun Grown Maduro
• The 1865 Project
• Vintage Series
• White Label

The company’s accessories are not increasing in price.

Most cigar companies will only adjust pricing once per year. Typically, those changes are enacted at the start of the new year, though some companies announced price increases in Q3 of last year. Below is a list of companies that have announced whether they will have a price increase in and around the start of 2024.

Company	Price Increase?
ADV & McKay Cigar Co.	Yes
AGANORSA Leaf	Yes
AJ Fernandez	Yes
All Saints Cigars	Yes
Altadis U.S.A.	Yes
Arango	No
Artesano del Tobacco	No
ATL Cigar Co.	No
Bellatto Premium Cigars	Yes
Black Label Trading Co.	Yes
Black Star Line Cigars	No
Boveda	Yes
Caldwell Cigar Co.	Yes
Casa Caraballo	No
Casa Cuevas	Yes
Colibri	No
Crowned Heads	No
Dapper Cigar Co.	Yes
Davidoff of Geneva	Yes
Drew Estate	Yes
E.P. Carrillo	Yes
El Septimo	No
Espinosa Premium Cigars	No
Esteban Carreras	Yes
Fosforo	Yes
Freud Cigar Co.	No
Habanos S.A.	Yes
HVC	Yes
Iconic Leaf	No
Jake Wyatt Cigar Co.	No
Kafie 1901	No
KBF	No
Kristoff	No
La Aurora	Yes
Lampert Cigars	No
Lost&Found	Yes
Lotus/Vertigo	No
My Father	No
Ohana Nui	No
Oliva	Yes
Patina	Yes
Perdomo	Yes
Potter Cigars	No
Powstanie	Yes
Principle Cigars	No
Rocky Patel	Yes
RoMa Craft Tobac	Yes
Santa Clara	No
Sinistro	Yes
Somm	No
Southern Draw	Yes
Stolen Throne	No
Sutliff	No
Tabanero Cigar Co.	No
Tatuaje	No
Vector-KGM	No
Villiger Cigars North America	Yes
Warfighter Cigar Co.	No