ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo

In mid-April, just as the industry was gearing up for the annual 2026 PCA Convention & Trade Show and all of the new product launches that happened in New Orleans, Smokingpipes.com, a South Carolina retailer owned by the same company that also owns Caldwell Cigar Co., began selling an exclusive vitola of the ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge.

While I’m sure the retailer sent out marketing emails at the time, I didn’t see any of them. So last month, when I was buying some cigars from Smokingpipes.com, I was surprised to see said cigar on sale.

The cigar is the ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo, advertised as a 7 1/4 x 40 lancero version of the original Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge blend: a Mexican San Andrés Colorado wrapper over a Dominican olor binder and five-year-old Dominican fillers. The line launched in 2024 and last year, the company added a Maduro version as well.

Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge is part of the larger Adventura and McKay, a fictional story created by the company to market its various lines. It’s based on ADVentura and McKay, two explorers who leave 15th-century Europe in search of treasures. At one point, the company was maintaining a very detailed story on its website, though it stopped at Chapter Four, which was before this cigar came out.

Pata palo is the Spanish term for peg leg.

• Cigar Reviewed: ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo
• Country of Origin: Dominican Republic
• Factory: Tabacalera Mina del Rey
• Wrapper: Mexico (San Andrés Colorado)
• Binder: Dominican Republic (Olor)
• Filler: Dominican Republic
• Length: 7 1/4 Inches
• Ring Gauge: 40
• Shape: Round
• MSRP: $14.40 (Box of 10, $144)
• Release Date: April 2026
• Number of Cigars Released: Undisclosed
• Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3

Upon taking the first cigar out of cellophane, I wonder if this cigar is a bit thinner than it should be, something that is quickly confirmed by measuring it, the results of which you can see in the Final Notes. The wrapper has a very uniform milk chocolate color with some reds and sheen showing in direct sunlight. While the wrapper is littered with bumps and small veins, they are most well-integrated, except on the second cigar. The front-facing side of that cigar looks fine, but on the backside, there are two three-inch-long veins that run vertically down the cigar, a bit abnormal. The aromas from the wrappers are identical: meidum-plus with layers of pine over some mild vetivier perfume. The first cigar’s foot is mild with just the scent of the tobacco, the second is slightly stronger with hints of cocoa, leather and white pepper, while the third is medium-plus with some woodiness, though still pretty non-descript. Cold draws come in at around medium, the first two with a muted chocolate malt flavor, wood and dry white wine. The third cigar has some woodiness and creaminess. Again, not the most intense nor the longest list of flavor sensations.

The three cigars start quite similarly: a classic Dominican profile of sweet earth and woodiness, around medium-full. While the first cigar is a bit plain, the second cigar has some dough and mineral flavors, and the third has minerals and a depth that makes it taste a bit more like a woody perfume. One other consistent aspect is that the flavors linger in the mouth for a lot longer than a typical cigar. Right off the bat, the first ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo’s draw shows signs of an issue: it feels partially blocked, something likely related to a hard spot right near the top of the head. For better and worse, there’s not a significant change to the main flavor. The woodiness edges out the earthiness, but it’s a solid one-two punch over secondary notes of minerals, dry white wine, creaminess and an inconsistent black pepper. As with the first puffs, when the flavors lingered for a while, the finish of each puff continues to be mostly wood and earth. The first cigar has some cashews, the second gets a tad sour and salty, while the third adds a subtle sweetness, like a few specs of powdered sugar land on my tongue. Retrohales show a different combination. The woodiness is still there, but now much more in line with minerals, meatiness and some Liquid Smoke-like toastiness. Unfortunately, I find the flavors to be rounded—lacking detail—and so evenly balanced that they seem to cancel out a lot of the complexity that might be there. Flavor is medium-full, body is mild and strength is nearly non-existent. Fortunately, the other cigars’ draws are fine and the rest of the construction is too, meaning the only deduction is for the first cigar’s tight draw.

Each cigar finishes the first third worse than it started, which makes for the first parts of the middle section not great. I don’t notice it at first, but at some point, a plain Cheerio’s note has made its way to the front of the profile. And shortly after recognizing it, more or less at the halfway point, each cigar’s smoke production just stops. The first cigar catches me completely off guard and goes out. I don’t think the second cigar goes out completely, but there’s a point when it seems second away from ending up there. Unfortunately, I’m unable to prevent it from happening on the third cigar. Furthermore, relighting the cigar makes the flavor a lot worse. The Cheerios note gets metallic and the bitterness increases, overwhelming about five minutes’ worth of puffs before fading. Flavor-wise, my largest issue is that there’s just not much going on. Outside of the Cheerios, there’s a medium mixture of tobacco, wood, grains and probably more harshness than pepper. That’s basically it. The finish can get toastier, but tends to be more bitter. Retrohaling fixes the lack of flavors. Unsweet floral flavors, oregano and woodiness are all a lot stronger than most of the core flavors. Unfortunately, it’s still too sharp and bitter for my liking, some of which is likely due to the combustion issues. Most of the flavors are barely medium, though some specific elements peak at full, while body and strength are both mild-medium. The first cigar’s draw remains poor, though that’s much more of a secondary issue compared to the combustion.

The majority of the puffs continue the path that was set by the second third. That means a ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo that tastes like dry grains with plain rice and bread emerging. About 15 percent of puffs are completely different, some of them reminding me of too young Cuban cigars with harsh woods, dryness and touches of floral sweetness. Other times, a creaminess emerges that helps to counteract a lot of the problems I have. Retrohaling can bring out more of the floral flavors, though the dry starchiness and harshness are still present. The third cigar has some black olive flavors that the other two lack. The finish adds some barnyard and toastiness, but at the expense of the flavors tasting a bit burnt. Flavor is full, body is mild-medium and strength is non-existent. The first and second cigars continue to need at least one more touch-up, though, unlike before, I at least get warnings that I need to use my lighter. For its part, the second cigar—which required multiple relights in the previous section—avoids any sort of combustion issues in the final third.

Final Notes

• I’ve smoked a lot of lanceros, and one of the reasons why I enjoy the vitola is that I feel more confident in my ability to listen to a lancero. Compared to other vitolas, I feel like I have a better grasp of whether the cigar needs a quicker puff rate or if the flavors will benefit from the cigar cooling, a dynamic relationship that is different for each cigar. At no point during any of the three cigars did I get any warning signs that they were going to go out right at the halfway mark.
• While most cigars I review don’t mysteriously go out without warning, amongst the ones that do, a decent chunk seem to behave like this, when each cigar has the issue at the same location of the cigar. Given the handmade nature of cigars and the variance I often find in the reviews, it’s somewhat impressive to have this sort of consistency, even if it’s not a good attribute.
• I found this profile to be hollow, offering a decent mixture of flavors initially, but with surprisingly little development. I think had I smoked this as my second or third cigar of the day, I wouldn’t have been as sensitive to this. However, on a relatively fresh palate, it was clear that each cigar lacked depth.
• Smokingpipes.com is part of the Laudisi Enterprises family of companies. The company is a large player in the pipe world. Jeremy Reeves, the head blender at Cornell & Diehl—part of Laudisi—is who Steve Saka consulted with for StillWell Star, the Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust pipe tobacco cigar. It has a physical store in South Carolina called Low Country Pipe & Cigar.
• The Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Robusto of this blend finished #14 on our Top 25 of 2024. I found that cigar to be very intense.
• In June, Omerta Cigar Co. in Oklahoma City got a 4 x 50 short robusto version of this blend.
• I would recommend undoing the large gold cover and not trying to slide it off like I did the first time.
• The cigars for this review were purchased by halfwheel.

• The box and a press release from Smokingipes list these cigars as 7 1/2 x 40 lanceros, though the UPC sticker on the cigars themselves and website say 7 1/4 x 40. Regardless, the three cigars I smoked were neither, more like 7 1/8 x 37.
• Final smoking time was very quick for me, averaging out to an hour and 45 minutes. I didn’t time the sections, but I think the first third might have taken longer than the other two combined.
• Smokingpipes.com is the only place to purchase the ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo.

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ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge Patapalo
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