Gurkha Cigar Group International announced a brand new packaging design to an old favorite: The Royal Challenge. Reaching brick and mortar shelves near you will be a new design on the staple brand from Gurkha Cigars. The products began shipping this week and should be in stores soon.
The Gurkha Real Toro was a pleasant, albeit fairly average flavor experience throughout. The last third was unbalanced and did detract somewhat. The profile is quite light, and certainly fits for a more classic Connecticut profile, so would appeal to cigar smokers who only smoke in the lighter end of the spectrum. For me, this cigar didn't do enough to differentiate from the other Connecticut offerings in the market.
The Gurkha San Miguel Toro was an average cigar from start to finish. It produced an AGANORSA flavor that you find with some of the lower end offerings. This wasn't a cigar composed with the best AGANORSA tobacco. It was earthy with some damp wood and pepper spice. Medium-full throughout. Nothing really to write home about and expand on.
The Gurkha Treinta Toro had some sneaky strength as I began feeling the nicotine a bit at the halfway point. As a cigar that is celebrating a big anniversary, it didn't show as something special. That, along with the high price point, doesn't really intrigue me to revisit this one.
Gurkha Cigar Group’s latest premium cigar offering, San Miguel has begun to ship to stores this week. San Miguel marks the third recent offering made at Aganorsa Leaf in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Gurkha Cigars is re-releasing the grandfathered brand San Miguel as its latest premium cigar. San Miguel marks the third recent offering by Gurkha Cigars that is made with the highly desirable Aganorsa Leaf from Nicaragua.
Castle Hall Nicaragua is a fantastic cigar offered at less then $5 per cigar (not including tobacco state taxes). The Dominican version was released earlier this year at TPE and this Nicaraguan version is a result of the immediate success of the brand.
Due to recent events, Kaizad Hansotia is resigning his position as the Chairman of Gurkha, effective immediately. Jim Colucci will assume the role of CEO and President of the company. Mr. Colucci has been with Gurkha since January 1, 2019 when he assumed full operational control.
The Gurkha Nicaragua Series Toro was fairly average throughout and didn't provide much in the way of exciting moments. It's interesting to see an Aganorsa sourced blend for the brand and we'll see if this leads to more offerings. If so, I would be interested to try them, but for this cigar, it's not something I see myself returning to.
This year the cigar manufacturer has added to its value cigar repertoire by introducing Castle Hall, a Connecticut seed wrapped value cigar available by the cigar or the box for less than $5 a cigar. They have also extended the popular Prize Fighter line, the value bundle cigar, by adding a maduro version.