This Vintage 1990 consists of a 12-year-aged Honduran Maduro wrapper, combined with 8-year-aged Nicaraguan and Dominican Ligero fillers. The result is a mild to medium-bodied cigar with delicious notes of nuts and caramel. Connoisseurs know that Rocky Patel’s blends often cater to sophisticated palates, potentially going unnoticed by beginner smokers.

Rocky explains that blending tobaccos from different regions requires greater skill, but the result is a perfect symmetry of flavors: “I personally blend each cigar. It’s a meticulous process. I taste hundreds of combinations until I find the winning one. Most of my blends take a year to perfect.”

The Rocky Patel 1990 Vintage received 92 points from Cigar Aficionado in October 2004, and made it onto the Cigars of the Year list in 2004 and 2006!