Rocky Patel R4 Corojo
Posted By ironmeden on July 31, 2007
So many things going on, its really hard to focus on one task lately. The one thing that we have let slip the last few weeks is the podcast. With the closing of our cigar lounge and having to find our new home for the Havana Nights Cigar Club, it’s just taking so much of our time. We hope that once the RTDA is finished we can get a podcast up discussing what new cigars we all can look forward to for the next year.
I have been meeting with a few local cigar shoppe owner and getting their interest in hosting our club. I’ve gotten many good responses and will be presenting them to the club on August 7th.
I’m also looking forward to starting to work at a local cigar lounge Burn. I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally take my hobby of cigar smoking and apply that to the retail side. If you live in the Twin Cities area, please stop by 11am to 7pm this upcoming Saturday and say Hi, and of course buy some new cigars!
Elvis and I have been racking our brains over new ideas for the club and we hope our new home we settle us into a wonderful new start.
Of course with the start of NFL training camp, weekends are going to be busy for the next 6 months. Fantasy Football is a big part of our lives as well as sitting my butt on the couch for 12 hours on a Sunday watching every game I can.
Now onto my review of the Rocky Patel R4.
Hmmmm…where do I start, well lets start with the quick synopsis from cigarinternational.com:
An elusive new offering from Rocky Patel.
Rocky Patel’s ‘R4′ has landed! Packaged in factory mazos of 25, these cigars are teeming with flavor. Chock full of premium tobaccos, including aged long-leaves hailing from Honduras and Nicaragua with choice of either Corojo or Maduro wrapper. Smooth, slow-burning, medium-bodied, and satisfying. At CI’s insane introductory prices, Rocky Patel R4 is a wonderful way to enjoy Rocky’s blending talents while being easy on the wallet!
Right from the start I know this cigar isn’t going to be worth talking about. The key to that paragraph is ‘mazo’, when they ain’t putting a cigar in a box, you know your getting possibly a poor to ok quality cigar and OK is exactly what this cigar is.
It seems this cigar is an exclusive from www.cigarinternational.com. My guess the tobacco for these cigars are left overs or some extra leaves they had and they decided to blend this cigar together. Its not an awful cigar by any means. The construction of the cigar was solid, no visual issues and it has a smooth wrapper. My first taste of the cigar is smooth, there wasn’t any harshness throughout this smoke. It does leave a chalky taste in my mouth while smoking it.
The burn is even and the ash is white to gray. The band is dull and kinda blends in with the cigar. I was smoking the Torpedo which is 6×52 and it is a quick smoke. Maybe because I wanted to get it over with, but it didn’t last long, maybe about 50 minutes.
Halfway through the smoke I had to get that chalky taste out of my mouth so I broke my rule on drinking alcohol while reviewing a cigar and I sipped on my Johnny Walker Gold which is the 18 year old.
As it ended the chalky taste seemed to get ramped up. My mouth was always dry after taking a draw.
If you want a Rocky Patel cigar, please keep buying your Edges, Sungrown, Vintage 90 and 92, but let this cigar fade into the obscurity of time.
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