Packaged in black wooden flip-top boxes of 20 cigars. The main 'Rocky Patel' and second 'Winter Collection' silver bands. First release in 2008 had a USA Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper. Rerelease 2019. Blender Rocky Patel. Factory: Rocky Patel's Tabacalera Villa Cubana S.A. (TAVICUSA). 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.