Rocky Patel Seed to Smoke Arrives at Store

It is more common these days to see cigars priced at $22.50 than it is at $2.50, but a new line from Rocky Patel is bucking the recent trend.

Seed to Smoke is the company’s new bundle brand, one that is priced very aggressively. Part of the reason why the cigars are comparatively inexpensive is that they aren’t made with 100 percent long filler tobaccos. Instead, Seed to Smoke is a Cuban sandwich-style cigar, meaning that it has a whole-leaf wrapper and binder like a premium cigar, but uses short filler, i.e. the cuts of tobacco that are created as a byproduct while bunching other cigars.

It is offered in two different wrapper options: Classic uses a Honduran maduro wrapper, while Seed to Smoke Shade uses a Connecticut-seed wrapper grown in Honduras. Underneath is a Honduran binder and fillers from Honduras and Nicaragua. Like many other Rocky Patel products, it is made at El Paraiso in Honduras.

Both blends are offered in the same three sizes, priced the same regardless of wrapper:

• Rocky Patel Seed to Smoke Classic/Shade Toro (6 x 52) — $2.50 (Bundle of 20, $50)
• Rocky Patel Seed to Smoke Classic/Shade Churchill (7 x 48) — $2.50 (Bundle of 20, $50)
• Rocky Patel Seed to Smoke Classic/Shade Sixty (6 x 60) — $3.95 (Bundle of 20, $79)

Seed to Smoke began shipping to stores earlier this month.