This review has been a long time coming, but I just hadn’t gotten around to smoking the Rocky Patel Sun Grown Torpedo sitting in my humidor for the past four months. Fortunately, the side effect of procrastination is one an appropriately aged cigar. As a self-described fan of Rocky Patel cigars, I was [...]

The Rocky Patel Decade is a special 10th anniversary release from Rocky and the torpedo earned a 95 rating from Cigar Afficionado. Rocky himself brought a whole bunch of these cigars to give away at the Aleppo Smoker I attended back in March and I forced myself to leave it alone for a while. [...]

Every year the Aleppo Shriners host a cigar night at their temple in Wilmington, MA. Like all Shriner events, all of the proceeds from the event go to charity like the Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. This past Friday, I was finally able to attend one of these cigar nights and after the time [...]