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New Series of Gurkhas

SkinsFanLarry

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Kaizad Hansotia’s Gurkha brand has always stood for quality cigars offered in spectacular packaging and often at spectacular prices. Now, a new series of Gurkhas is debuting at a store near you in glorious tins and at nicely accessible prices.

There are three new lines being offered, all in gorgeous, colorful tins of 20:

Gurkha Monogram, a mild-to-medium blend with a light Connecticut wrapper and Dominican binder and filler. The taste is said to be similar to the Gurkha Elegance.

Gurkha Havana Legend, a strong and heavy blend that is “not for the novice.” It has a Nicaraguan-grown wrapper, Cameroon binder and powerful Peruvian filler, with a taste reminiscent to the Special Edition Beast or Titan blend.

Gurkha Nautilus, a medium-to-full blend that is characterized as a “wonderful smooth cigar” and a “great everyday smoke.” It has a Nicaraguan Havana 2000 wrapper, double binder from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic and Honduran and Nicaraguan filler leaves.

All three blends will be offered in the same four shapes: Churchill (7 inches by 50 ring), Robusto (5 x 50), Toro (6 x 52) and Torpedo (6 1/2 x 53). Best of all is the price, a suggested retail of $5.00 per cigar, regardless of shape, in all three styles (not including state and local taxes, of course).

This is perhaps the most accessible Gurkha ever offered and are the first Gurkhas to be offered by regional distributors Phillips & King (west) and Harold Levinson Associates (east). But like all Gurkhas, the fight will be over who get to keep the embossed tins in which the cigars are packed!
 

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That's pushing them close to "80" blends under their name now.

The Havana Legend does sound interesting though.
 

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80 blends and not one real good one. I had a few that were ok, but nothing ever stands out. Nice boxes though.
 

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The beast and titan are probably the only gurkhas I would smoke again, although I have had several burn issues on titans.
 

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Gurkha to me is all smoke and mirrors, just not good smoke. Not worth working through the droves of blends to see if one is OK, never found one worth the hype or MSRP. Not all bad, but none great.
 

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I'm with you Mitch, never really been a fan of them but, the Havana Legend does intrigue me, just a bit.
 

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I don't dislike em, some are OK, but the hype pisses me off. Most are the same blend that Carlos Toranos makes under his own band or a CAO band for half the MSRP without the fancy box. If you find a gurkha you like check the other two brands you might find the same blend much cheaper.
 
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