A bit earlier than expected, the Rocky Patel LB1 is off to stores.

It’s a five-vitola line that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers. The name is actually the factory code that was used at the El Paraiso factory in Honduras when the cigar was being developed.

There are four regular production sizes offered to all stores, while retailers that placed orders at the 2019 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas were given access to a 7 x 48 Churchill with a shaggy foot.

  • Rocky Patel LB1 Corona (6 x 44) — $8.25 (Box of 20, $165)
  • Rocky Patel LB1 Robusto (5 1/2 x 50) — $8.75 (Box of 20, $175)
  • Rocky Patel LB1 Toro (6 1/2 x 52)  — $9.50 (Box of 20, $190)
  • Rocky Patel LB1 Sixty (6 x 60) — $10.90 (Box of 20, $218)
  • Rocky Patel LB1 Churchill Shaggy Foot (7 x 48) — $9.50 (Box of 20, $190)

The Rocky Patel LB1 was originally expected to ship in September.

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