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News: Rocky Patel to Release Burn

Rocky Patel’s latest cigar creation, Burn, will make its debut on Saturday, February 25 at the Rocky Patel Cigar Lounge located inside Cigar Cave in Tampa, FL. The cigar will then be shipped to the other 32 Rocky Patel lounge accounts across the country at a yet to be determined date. The cigar is made [...]

Weekly News (December 20, 2010)

Hmm… the news. On Wednesday, I broke some news regarding the second (and unreleased) batch of Nosotros, or Nosotros “seconds” as some like to refer to them. I also asked some questions going into next year, and told the world about Altadis’ inquiry into Drew Estate. And on Monday… I don’t really have anything to break. [...]

Review: Illusione Burn Churchill

For those of you that don’t know… About 2 weeks ago, I saw on Twitter that one of the Illusione reps had smoked an Illusione I had never heard of, dubbed “Burn”… A little cyber sleuthing turned up the fact that Dion (of Illusione Cigars) had developed a specific blend for Rocky Patel’s brand new [...]

Weekly News (November 22, 2010)

It’s been a quietly busy week. The big news, the Tatuaje Anarchy launched. It’s a pigtailed Figurado that measures a 6 1/8 x 48-52 in fifteen count boxes around $150 from Smoke Inn. Brian Hewitt had some updates on the other Tatuaje projects including the Monster Series and Saints & Sinners. Brian also dug up [...]

Weekly News (November 1, 2010)

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekends. Instead of candy, I had Padrón weekend. The annual release of the Oliva Serie V Maduro hit stores this past week. The Rocky Patel Valedor which is a B&M only stick that was made for the NRA also hit stores. A special Opus X Scorpion was released at Casa [...]