In 1995, a Los Angeles-based attorney Rocky Patel started a cigar brand. It was one of many started in 1995 and it’s challenging to believe that anyone could have expected Patel to end up where he was today. That company was Indian Tabac, it wouldn’t be until 2002 for Rocky Patel Premium Cigars to come to life as a company. Today, Patel’s cigar holdings extend beyond just the brand: there’s a factory in Estelí, fields in Nicaragua, BURN by Rocky Patel—the cigar bar in Naples with a Patel-owned restaurant nearby—and plans for much more. This year marks 20 years of Patel in the cigar business and as is so oftentimes the case, there’s a cigar to celebrate. The cigar is known as the Rocky Patel Twentieth Anniversary, a logical follow-up to the Rocky Patel 15th Anniversary introduced five years ago. It is made in Honduras using a Honduran wrapper and fillers from the Jamastran Valley in Honduras as well as Estelí and Jalapa in Nicaragua. Five box-pressed sizes have been released: Rothschild (4 1/2 x 50, $9.65), Robusto (5 x 54, $10.15), Toro (6 x 52, $11.20), Sixty (6 x 52, $12.80) and Lancero (7 1/2 x 38, $9.65). Each comes ...
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