Packaged in 2000 (first release) special boxes of 20 cigars. Each box not only comes in its own draw string bag, but also has the name “Rocky Patel” spelled out on two different custom designed plates using over 500 orange Swarovski Crystals. Release 2011. Now only toro is regular production, luxury black flip-top wooden boxes. Factory: Tabacalera Villa Cubana S.A. (TAVICUSA). Rocky Patel Fifty series release commemorate to the celebrates Patel’s 50th birthday in 2011. The Rocky Patel Premium Cigars Co. was founded by Rakesh 'Rocky' Patel, born in India in 1961. Rocky Patel worked as a lawyer in Los Angeles and became interested in cigars in the 1990s. Having bought a tobacco farm and a small factory in Honduras, he began producing cigars under the Indian Cigars brand, which he introduced in Cincinnati (USA) in 1996. In 2003, Rocky changed the name of Indian Cigars to Rocky Patel Premium Cigars. The first series under this brand was Rocky Patel Vintage 1990.