Smoked: Rocky Patel Hamlet 25th Year

Made at the Rocky Patel factory, sporting rocky patel branding on the cellophane and boc packaging is the cigar that would come to be known as the Hamlet 25th Year, making its debut at the 2017 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. The cigar celebrates Paredes’ 25 years in the tobacco, with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, Pennsylvanian broadleaf binder and fillers from Honduras and Nicaragua.

Hamlet Paredes came to a certain level of global prominence after rising through the Cuban cigar ranks, starting as a factory roller before being moved to the front-of-house rolling table at the Briones Montoto factory where the old Romeo y Julieta store was located, and the La Casa del Habano inside the famed Partagás factory in Habana Vieja. What catapulted him into the minds of cigar smokers around the world were his travels as a global ambassador for the cigar conglomerate that began in 2000, as he would promote the brands of the Habanos S.A. portfolio in cigar shops in seemingly every corner of the world. That would all come to an end in 2015, however, when Paredes would leave Cuba to begin a new career in the United States, joining forces with Rocky Patel Premium Cigars, working at the BURN by Rocky Patel store in Naples, Fla.

_Note: Tom speaking here... THIS CIGAR IS A POWERHOUSE!!! CUBANESQUE IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. SHEESH 🥵 nots of pepper, spice, nutmeg, and espresso cinnamon. Seems age didn't tone it down but it is smooth with a long finish. CHEERS MY FRIENDS!

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Factory: Tabacalera Villa Cuba S.A.

Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano

Binder: Pennsylvanian Broadleaf

Filler: Honduras and Nicaragua

Length: 5 1/2 Inches

Ring Gauge: 50

Vitola: Robusto

MSRP: $8.75 (Boxes of 20, $175)

Release Date: October 2017