Description

A well-balanced smoke with a smooth earthiness accompanied by notes of cedar and espresso. Its 12 year old Honduran Broadleaf wrapper covers a Honduran binder and a Dominican and Nicaraguan filler. The blend uses filler and binder tobacco that has been aged for 7 years. This specially curated and aged blend adds to the cigars complexity and offers a mild to medium smoking indulgence. The Rocky Patel Vintage 1990 is handmade in Honduras. Best of the Best in 2004 Robb Report and 92 in Cigar Aficionado.

Specifications

• BrandsRocky Patel Vintage 1990A survivor of the cigar boom, Rocky Patel has outlasted his competition with unrivaled persistence on his quest for perfection. His cigars are the result of blending tobaccos from various regions to produce the perfect blend, and a marked emphasis on quality control. The Rocky Patel Vintage 1990 was the first cigar to bear the Rocky Patel name. Smooth, well-balanced and nutty, this cigar is made with 12 year old Honduran broadleaf wrapper. The Vintage 1990 has been rated 92 by Cigar Aficionado and twice featured in the magazine’s “Top 25 Cigars of the Year”.
• Cigar ShapeRobustoThe Robusto is a short Churchill size, traditionally 5 to 5.5 inches by a 50 ring gauge.
• Cigar SectionBox-Pressed (Square)A box pressed cigar is a cigar that has a square shape. Originally, this shape came from the practice of packing round cigars tightly in cardboard boxes which are then compacted using a manual press. The cigars are thus pressed into each other and become a “squarish” or semi-square shape. Today, cigar makers use square shaped molds or a wooden trunk press for their box pressed cigars, achieving a more defined square section.
• Cigar Length5″1/2This cigar is 5″1/2 inches long, or 139.7 mm.
• OriginHondurasMost cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.Honduras, a Central American country which shares a border with Nicaragua, is widely known in the premium cigar industry as the ideal place to grow Cuban and Connecticut seed tobaccos. Danli and the Jamastran Valley is considered the heart of Honduras cigar industry. The Jamastran Valley is known for producing a full-bodied tobacco that draws strong comparisons to the tobacco grown in the Pinar del Rio region of Cuba. This same region is also known for its Connecticut shade grown and Corojo shade grown tobacco. In addition, Honduras produces Cuban-seed sun grown filler tobaccos of the highest quality.
• Cigar Ring Gauge50The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 50, so his diameter is 50/64 inches or 19.81 mm.
• Strength Medium
• Wrapper ColorColoradoCigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (MaduroorOscuro) with a full range of browns in between.Colorado is a medium brown color also known as EMS or English Market Selection as this used to be the color with more popularity in England than in America.
• Single PackagingCellophane
• Rolling TypeHandmadeHandmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar ManufacturerGeneral Cigars/ST GroupGeneral Cigar Company manufactures premium cigars in several factories located in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Founded by Edgar Cullman, Sr. in 1960, the company experienced incredible success with their Macanudo brand. After a series of acquisitions throughout the years that made General Cigars one of the largest cigar manufacturers in the world, the company merged with Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) in 2010.
• Cigar WrapperHonduranThe wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.Honduran cigar wrapper has the reputation of great quality, with wrapper leaf being grown in the Jamastran, Talanga and San Agustin valleys. Some of the wrappers being grown in Honduras include Corojo, Honduran Claro, Honduran Criollo, Honduran Jamastran Viso Rosado, Honduran San Agustin Havana Seed and San Agustin Ligero.
• Cigar BinderHondurasThe binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar and bind the filler tobaccos together. Honduran tobacco is known for being full-bodied. Cigars produced in Honduras are regarded for their consistency and quality. Using Honduran tobacco as a binder will add to the cigars overall strength and flavor profile.
• Cigar FillerDominican RepublicFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.Filler (or tripa in Spanish) is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar. The Dominican Republic is considered one of the most premier tobacco growing countries in the world. The filler tobacco grown in this Caribbean island nation ranges from mild to full bodied. Olor Dominicano and Piloto Cubano are the main types of tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic.NicaraguaFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.
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