Rocky Patel Mulligans Review

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With that being said, Today I'd like to review a decent cigar from Rocky Patel called Mulligans. I got this from my buddy FratBoy and smoked it on Fathers Day.

The cigar is described as having an oily Habano wrapper, medium-bodied,toasty and cedary.

The cigar was slightly spongy to the touch in hand and had a straw like smell to the body. The foot was sweet smelling and had a generous cap to the head. Not sure if this was wrapped by experienced torcedors as you could see a rough cut all along the cigar wrapper from the Chaveta (knife), you could see the "peaks" that someone unexperienced could make. Here is a pic of a chaveta:

There were a couple thick veins in the wrapper. It had an effortless prelight draw which tasted like sweet raisins.

Upon light I was greated with a little pepper through the nose, but not strong. What I mean by through the nose is quite self explainitory. This is done by a technique called "rolling the smoke". It's where you take in the smoke to your mouth and blow or roll some or all of it over the top palette and out through the your nose. Doing this will expand the flavor profile you get from the cigar.

The cigar started off mild with slightly sweet woody tones and became a little more medium, but not much, as the cigar progressed. It was smooth throughout with a creamy feel to the smoke in the mouth. It had a fairly even burn with a tight grey ash and blunt cone. On the last inch it got a bit more peppery with a dash of chocolate to last few puffs.

Buzz Rating for this one I gave 7 out of 10: Slight buzz but not non-exisitent.

Overall I give 3 out of 5: Lingering tastes on the palette but still clean to the mouth. A bit unusual break away from the normal Patel profile as far as tastes and strength are concerned, but not in a bad way.

Depending on you size preference, you can buy these from www.holts.com for $40-55 for a bundle of 20.

A couple more reviews on the way in the next few days as I am playing catchup on what I have in my cigar diary. Until next post........Peace.