Smoke Notes: Gurkha Estate Select Vintage Shaggy
I picked this cigar up at a nice shop in Michigan City Indiana about an hour east of Chicago. It is a beautiful oily toro that weighs in at 6×50 with Nicaraguan/Dominican filler and a Dominican wrapper and binder. I gets its the name “Shaggy” from the uncommon unwrapped foot it has. It is a smooth wrapper with some small bumps and veins. The wrapper has a deep dark leather look to it. The flavor was good with notes of coffee and a little leather for sure with the draw being firm but comfortable. The burn went back and forth from being straight as can possibly be to going off some but never needed corrected and it was actually fun to watch. Why I don’t know maybe I was bored but it never stopped moving around. Once the ash got to the wrapper it was solid but ugly and lasted about an inch or a little over. I think it might have been a little over humidified. Over all this is a good smoke but I don’t know if it is worth the $8 I paid for it. When I run across some more I will pick them up so I can do a full review on them. Very interesting though so they are worth a shot. Sorry for being so short and the bad pictures. I will spend more time on it when I get to do a full review.
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There are 11 Comments to "Smoke Notes: Gurkha Estate Select Vintage Shaggy"
Ah, the tower of burn. Gotta love it!
It’s a shame you didn’t get a picture of it pre-light.
Yea as soon as I fired it up I though about that. I will make sure to get a picture when I get some more.
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just had one of these and all i can say is WOW!
very nice and smooth
Yes it was good, I can’t wait to get a couple more.
I had just rated this cigar at my Joe Average Cigar Blog, when I came across your notes here. I found my cigar to be almost exactly as you’ve described! I was impressed with both your (and my, of course) accurate reportage!
Enjoying your site…
Joe Average
Joe, thanks for bringing this cigar back to my attention. I have to find a couple more of these! Nice review by the way.
I just found out these are going to be discontinued…how sad.
That is the first I have heard of this nate. Thanks for the tip. I will have to pick some up before to long.
Great cigar. This was the first Gurkha that I tried after hearing about it on the Cigar Dave show. I was impressed. I haven’t been dissapointed by anything from Gurkha yet. They can get pricey though.
I picked up one of these cigars last night. It was the best cigar I have ever had the privelige of ever lighting up. Got mine for $6.00 each(buy 2 get 1 free). for the pure joy I found this price to be very reasonable. OUTSTANDING CIGAR.