Time to do a review. My palette is not what I'd call advanced, so take this as you will- a review by a n00b who may or may not know what they are talking about. Where I might find subtle hints of sage and elderberry, you may find indistinguishable one dimensional crap. Hence the name of the review. 
Cigar: Rocky Patel Signature Toro
Length: 6"
Ring: 52
Wrapper Color: Light Ecuadorian Connecticut
Filler: Mixed Central American
This is sort of an odd review. I’ve had two of these cigars, in the same location (my office) on different days, about a week apart. They had been sitting in the humi for a couple of weeks. The impressions were 180 degrees apart. One was fine, one was horrible.
The first cigar is what I’ll review here, the second one, that I took pictures of, is not.
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Prelight:
This stogie is beautifully constructed, perfect wrapper and cap, in a nice, silky smooth light shade wrapper. It is a handsome little bugger, any cigar snob would be right proud of it’s looks. No hard or soft spots, perfect construction throughout. It had an earthy, mild tobacco smell. Upon cutting, it had an incredibly easy draw.
The foot showed decent construction as well.
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Light:
The Signature lit easily all the way around the foot. Initial impressions were a mild, milky/creamy taste.
First Third:
The initial taste strengthened a little tiny bit, a mild creaminess that was eventually supported by just a hint of cedar. The burn was perfect. Interestingly, the flavor really didn’t strengthen or change past this point! It continued to be a nice, very mild, very creamy tiny bit cedary cigar that left no aftertaste whatsoever. It was like it was trying to build into something great but couldn’t quite get there. It never got bitter, never spicy, and certainly never full bodied as the ads say. It was almost like pretending to smoke a cigar, or reading about the experience rather than actually doing it. No challenges to the taste buds, or to the lighter, it just kinda went along, smoothly, inoffensively, until it was done with around a couple inches to go.
It’s ash was nice, with the little bit of flakiness, but held on the requisite inch ( which is when I usually tap it off). It burned nice and white and strong.
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I won’t break the review down into thirds because the cigar was exactly the same throughout its length. If I were going to introduce someone to cigars for the first time, and they wanted a huge, manly, massive ‘gar in their fist to impress people with, I would give them this one. It is mild and creamy enough to be enjoyable to first timers, and they can impress people with the beautiful looking stick with a brand name.
Special note:
I smoked a second one a few nights ago (the night I took the actual photos). It was vile. Initial draw was too easy, initial tastes were nice and creamy, but very soon turned harsh and bitter, despite numerous purgings. I kept waiting for it to improve, but it never did. I finally had to pitch it with maybe an inch and a half smoked, which is why there are no pictures of it smoked way down. Had to have a DPG JJ to get me happy again.
Cliff Notes:
Nice, creamy, extremely mild, to the point of being too mild. Possibly inconsistent, as I had a horrible one as well as the decent one. I’ll have to try a tiebreaker later on.
Cigar: Rocky Patel Signature Toro
Length: 6"
Ring: 52
Wrapper Color: Light Ecuadorian Connecticut
Filler: Mixed Central American
This is sort of an odd review. I’ve had two of these cigars, in the same location (my office) on different days, about a week apart. They had been sitting in the humi for a couple of weeks. The impressions were 180 degrees apart. One was fine, one was horrible.
The first cigar is what I’ll review here, the second one, that I took pictures of, is not.
View attachment 18245
Prelight:
This stogie is beautifully constructed, perfect wrapper and cap, in a nice, silky smooth light shade wrapper. It is a handsome little bugger, any cigar snob would be right proud of it’s looks. No hard or soft spots, perfect construction throughout. It had an earthy, mild tobacco smell. Upon cutting, it had an incredibly easy draw.
The foot showed decent construction as well.
View attachment 18244
Light:
The Signature lit easily all the way around the foot. Initial impressions were a mild, milky/creamy taste.
First Third:
The initial taste strengthened a little tiny bit, a mild creaminess that was eventually supported by just a hint of cedar. The burn was perfect. Interestingly, the flavor really didn’t strengthen or change past this point! It continued to be a nice, very mild, very creamy tiny bit cedary cigar that left no aftertaste whatsoever. It was like it was trying to build into something great but couldn’t quite get there. It never got bitter, never spicy, and certainly never full bodied as the ads say. It was almost like pretending to smoke a cigar, or reading about the experience rather than actually doing it. No challenges to the taste buds, or to the lighter, it just kinda went along, smoothly, inoffensively, until it was done with around a couple inches to go.
It’s ash was nice, with the little bit of flakiness, but held on the requisite inch ( which is when I usually tap it off). It burned nice and white and strong.
View attachment 18246
I won’t break the review down into thirds because the cigar was exactly the same throughout its length. If I were going to introduce someone to cigars for the first time, and they wanted a huge, manly, massive ‘gar in their fist to impress people with, I would give them this one. It is mild and creamy enough to be enjoyable to first timers, and they can impress people with the beautiful looking stick with a brand name.
Special note:
I smoked a second one a few nights ago (the night I took the actual photos). It was vile. Initial draw was too easy, initial tastes were nice and creamy, but very soon turned harsh and bitter, despite numerous purgings. I kept waiting for it to improve, but it never did. I finally had to pitch it with maybe an inch and a half smoked, which is why there are no pictures of it smoked way down. Had to have a DPG JJ to get me happy again.
Cliff Notes:
Nice, creamy, extremely mild, to the point of being too mild. Possibly inconsistent, as I had a horrible one as well as the decent one. I’ll have to try a tiebreaker later on.