Arango Cigar Co. has added the Rocky Patel Big Shoulders, a new exclusive for its distribution portfolio.
The cigar is a 6 x 60 gordo that uses a shade-grown Connecticut wrapper, though the company has not yet disclosed its country of origin. The binder and filler are also undisclosed, as is which factory is producing the cigar. The company did describe the profile as being “a mild to medium bodied smoke, smooth and creamy with a nutty core and a hint of sweetness.”
The cigar gets its name from a nickname for the city of Chicago, as Arango Cigar Co. is located in the suburb of Northbrook. The original term was coined by poet Carl Sandburg in his 1914 work, “Chicago,” though he referred to Chicago as the “City of Big Shoulders” when describing the city as “stormy, husky [and] brawling.”
Pricing for the Rocky Patel Broad Shoulders is set at $9.50 per cigar and $190 for a box of 20 cigars, both before taxes.
This is the second Big Shoulders release for Arango Cigar Co., as the company added the Perfecto Garcia Big Shoulders, a 6 x 60 gordo that is offered with a natural wrapper option using an Ecuadorian wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. That cigar is produced at Nicaragua American Cigars S.A. (NACSA) in Estelí.
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