A New Cigar...

[Neuromancer]

Last week I attended a Rocky Patel cigar event at Macabi Cigars in Plantation, Florida, and won one of the door prizes given out by the RP Rep....he told me it was a sample of a cigar they will be coming out with in the next few months, to retail in the $10-$12 range, called the ROCKY PATEL OLD WORLD RESERVE (at least I think that's what he said it would be called)...I smoked it tonight...what a cigar...first of all it is way too rich (and I don't mean strong...I favor maduros and other full-bodied smokes) to be an everyday cigar even if you could afford to smoke it daily...it's really a special occasion cigar..it was a box pressed torpedo shape (about 6" X 48/50) and the wrapper was a beautiful dark chocolate brown color and was essentially flawless...there was nary a vein visible, let alone the visual seams from winding the wrapper around the binder...it had a smooth, silky, satin feel to it, almost to the point of being erotic...lighting it, the first impression I had was that it had a very spicy, peppery flavor to it that mellowed out a bit as I got about an inch into it...the construction was impeccable, the burn slow, and the draw extremely easy...basically I sipped at it...the flavors were subtle...not mild, not full-bodied...somewhere between...about halfway through I thought I tasted just a very mild, elusive hint of vanilla (it wasn't a flavored cigar) and at that point it began to change again and flowed into an oaky taste...as I got near the end of it the oakiness flowed into a grassy flavor like that of a good merlot, and it finished up back at the spicy, peppery flavor it started with, and the draw didn't begin to get hot until I had less than 1-1/2" left...should be interesting when this hits the market...

[Scientific]

Has anyone seen the R.P. "wafers"? They taste like ...well they aren't for me lets put it that way, but very interesting design. Come like 50 to small rubusto size box. Saw them when my boss got back from the show. Don't know if their for sale yet.

[superman78]

Last week I attended a Rocky Patel cigar event at Macabi Cigars in Plantation, Florida, and won one of the door prizes given out by the RP Rep....he told me it was a sample of a cigar they will be coming out with in the next few months, to retail in the $10-$12 range, called the ROCKY PATEL OLD WORLD RESERVE (at least I think that's what he said it would be called)...I smoked it tonight...what a cigar...first of all it is way too rich (and I don't mean strong...I favor maduros and other full-bodied smokes) to be an everyday cigar even if you could afford to smoke it daily...it's really a special occasion cigar..it was a box pressed torpedo shape (about 6" X 48/50) and the wrapper was a beautiful dark chocolate brown color and was essentially flawless...there was nary a vein visible, let alone the visual seams from winding the wrapper around the binder...it had a smooth, silky, satin feel to it, almost to the point of being erotic...lighting it, the first impression I had was that it had a very spicy, peppery flavor to it that mellowed out a bit as I got about an inch into it...the construction was impeccable, the burn slow, and the draw extremely easy...basically I sipped at it...the flavors were subtle...not mild, not full-bodied...somewhere between...about halfway through I thought I tasted just a very mild, elusive hint of vanilla (it wasn't a flavored cigar) and at that point it began to change again and flowed into an oaky taste...as I got near the end of it the oakiness flowed into a grassy flavor like that of a good merlot, and it finished up back at the spicy, peppery flavor it started with, and the draw didn't begin to get hot until I had less than 1-1/2" left...should be interesting when this hits the market...

I was with you until you got too the erotic part ,look forward to trying this ,thanks for the heads up