Rocky Patel Gold Label Shipping
Cigarmaker Rocky Patel’s newest regular-production line, Gold Label, is off to cigar shops. It’s slightly late—when it was previewed to retailers at this spring’s PCA trade show, it was scheduled to ship by late May or early June. Packaging delays are responsible for the postponement.
Gold Label is made in Estelí, Nicaragua, at Patel’s Tavicusa factory. The blend consists of an Ecuador Habano cover leaf, two Connecticut-seed binder leaves (one broadleaf, the other shade) and all-Nicaraguan filler. According to the company, the cigars are medium in body.
The line is available in four sizes: Half Corona, measuring 3 1/2 inches by 46 ring gauge ($9.70); Robusto, 5 1/2 by 50 ($12); Toro, 6 1/2 by 54 ($13); and Sixty, 6 by 60 ($14). Despite the luxurious-sounding name, Patel intends Gold Label to be for “an everyday smoker” and is relatively inexpensive, though some of the pricing will be slightly higher than previously reported.
For a tasting of Rocky Patel Gold Label, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
