Rockey Patel 10 year old Ecuadorian sun grown wrapper

[enerjay]

I understand a little about cigars, but how is it that a company like RP would have a 10 year old wrapper, when they do not grow their own tobacco. With such a high demand for cigars today, would it not be hard for the growers to store the tobacco for so long.

 

[PuroEsq]

I understand a little about cigars, but how is it that a company like RP would have a 10 year old wrapper, when they do not grow their own tobacco. With such a high demand for cigars today, would it not be hard for the growers to store the tobacco for so long.

Actually, Rocky Patel does grow his own tobacco. In fact he hosts trips to his Honduran estate where you can go into the fields and tour the factory where he makes some of his cigars.

 

[ndp]

I understand a little about cigars, but how is it that a company like RP would have a 10 year old wrapper, when they do not grow their own tobacco. With such a high demand for cigars today, would it not be hard for the growers to store the tobacco for so long.

[rant]

Smoke cigar, like cigar, smoke more cigar. Smoke cigar, don't like cigar, don't smoke cigar again. Guess a tobacco farmer would not have any more of a hard time storing aged tobacco than wineries have storing gallons upon gallons of wine for aging. Being such a newbie myself, and having decided to practice the "read more post less" doctrine (something mabey you should think about), I usually keep my little fingers still. But for someone who has about 5 posts per day since joining this site 5 days ago, you seem to have stirred up quite a bit of trouble. But thats just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.

Nate
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[JHolmes763]

Valid question and the wine comparison is probably the best one. They know that they get better with age and can make a better cigar, so why not save a bit of it?

 

[The Volusianator]

But for someone who has about 5 posts per day since joining this site 5 days ago, you seem to have stirred up quite a bit of trouble. But thats just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.

Nate
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None of which really applies to this post however, he just asked a question.

 

[Dave]

A lot of his cigars as of late (not neccessarily the Vintage line, but the OWR in particular) has had a sudden drastic change in flavor in that it now lacks any form of flavor. Could a possibility of the change be caused by the shortage of the "original" tobacco used in the OWR a year ago as compared to the "new" tobacco used for it now?

 

[Mrepp]

A lot of his cigars as of late (not neccessarily the Vintage line, but the OWR in particular) has had a sudden drastic change in flavor in that it now lacks any form of flavor. Could a possibility of the change be caused by the shortage of the "original" tobacco used in the OWR a year ago as compared to the "new" tobacco used for it now?

There’s different stages tobacco goes, the most commonly known is the sick period but there’s other short span periods it also goes through as it ages. I personally believe outside variables can affect these stages greatly and with the weather changing so drastically I think this may knock certain cigars into a tasteless stage. Constancy in environment is what cigars seem to need to be tasty but when you think about how many times it changes hands and conditions from warm to cold when its shipped its really no surprise to find them needing time to settle in. A lot of guys around here won’t even smoke em until they’ve rested for a month or more. Just my opinion.