The Rocky Patel Decade Forty-Six corona is your 45-minute escape into medium-full bliss. This 4½" x 46 stick packs Nicaraguan binder/filler magic under an Ecuadorian Sumatra cape, burning smooth as the Honduran sun that cured its leaves. Celebrating RP's decade milestone, it's like someone bottled a coffee roastery's morning aroma and wrapped it in silky chocolate notes. Comes in 20-count boxes that don't break the bank.
Cold Draw: Sweet raisins meet barnyard earthiness. The foot smells like grandma's cedar chest storing dark chocolate bars.
Initial puff coats your tongue with roasted cashews. Smoky black tea emerges at ½-inch ash mark. Retrohale shows cinnamon sparkles that don't bite.
Cocoa powder dominates as wrapper heats up. Watch for transition at 20-minute mark - espresso crema sweetness meets charred oak bitterness in perfect balance.
Nicaraguan pepper finally peeks through at nub stage. Some report mineral tang in last inch, best solved by purging every third puff past halfway.
The oily wrapper held fingerprint sheen after 2 weeks at 65% RH. First light required double torch attention but settled into even burn line. Ash held firm in ¾-inch chunks. Pairing test: skip sweet drinks - Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee amplified its earthiness perfectly.
Rolled in Danli's El Paraiso factory where humidity hovers around 73% year-round. The Honduran filler leaves get 18-month fermentation in pilones stacked with mango wood chips. Box code tip: Look for second-letter "M" batches - these use 2018 vintage wrapper leaves from Ecuador's Los Ríos region.
