Rocky Patel The Edge Battalion

Rocky Patel's 2004 breakout — a rough wooden box of 100 unbanded cigars at $5 each that skeptics said would never sell. A potent blend of five-year-aged Nicaraguan long-filler in a Honduran binder, wrapped in Corojo or Maduro leaf, gives leather, cinnamon, oak, almond, prune, and — in the Maduro — bitter coffee and peppercorn. Now a seven-variant best seller.