Rocky Patel Hamlet Tabaquero Culebra 8" * 40/44

Upon first look, the Rocky Patel Hamlet Tabaquero Culebra certainly makes an impression. Once lit, it will make yet another! Using a rich Mexican San Andres wrapper, a double binder from Brazil and Mexico, and filler from Nicaragua, the Hamlet Tabaquero Culebra is a testament to the fact that a good cigar not only needs worthy components, but a skillful set of hands to make it amazing. Notes of coffee, cocoa, earth and spice flood the palate, with a smooth leathery cream on the finish. This rare and intriguing culebra vitola is meant to be 'unraveled', and gives you three individual cigars to smoke.

• Cigar Shape
  Giant

  The Giant was tipically a 9 inch by 52 cigar. Today, it is every cigar 8 inches and up with a ring gauge of 50 and up.
• Cigar Section
  Round

  Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length
  8"

  This cigar is 8 inches long, or 203.2 mm.
• Origin
  Nicaragua

  Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
  Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  44

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 44, so his diameter is 44/64 inches or 17.53 mm.
• Strength
  Medium
• Wrapper Color
  Maduro

  Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
  Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).
• Single Packaging
  Cellophane
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  Rocky Patel

  Launched in 1996 during the late 20th Century’s cigar boom, Rocky Patel Premium Cigars (formerly known as the Indian Tabac Cigar Co.) has established itself as a premier boutique cigar brand. Their cigars are made at Rocky Patel’s Tavicusa factory in Esteli, Nicaragua as well as their El Paraiso factory in Danli, Honduras.
• Cigar Wrapper
  Mexican San Andres Maduro

  The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
  Mexican tobacco is very dark and the best leaves can be used as maduro wrappers. San Andres Maduro is a thick, medium bodied dark leaf, also called San Andres Morron. Like Connecticut Broadleaf, San Andres Maduro is stalk cut and used for binder and wrapper.
• Cigar Binder
  Brazil

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Brazil grows tobacco from North to South. The East Central State of Bahia is an important cigar tobacco producer. The growing area is about 100 miles west of the state capital, Salvador da Bahia, an active port on the Atlantic Coast. The Northern State of Alagoas hosts a production around the city of Arapiraca where maduro wrappers are grown. The Southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina produce tobacco for cigarettes and pipe.

  Mexico

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Mexican tobacco is primarily grown in the San Andres region due to its volcanic soil. It has a very distinctive flavor with a spicy and earthy profile. As a binder it adds to the cigar’s overall flavor.
• Cigar Filler
  Nicaragua

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.