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Evening all.
Just finished this little beauty and will get straight to the review.
I bought it on 05.07, so it had few weeks in various containers. Not gonna lie, what made me buy this cigar was the band and description.
That sounds very interesting indeed. Then I saw some opinions on Gurkhas in general and just left it in the humi till now.
Before I lit it, I wanted to charge my phone to take some photos, so I've spend few minutes with this stick. Construction seemed to be good, springy feel throughout with only one or two barely noticeable harder spots. Wrapper was not the smoothest I've seen, was also a bit veiny, but looked good to my tired eyes. Smell was beautiful, peppery hay sort of thing, very refreshing.
I've cut it using doubble blade cutter and lit it up with trusty Firebird lighter. The amount of smoke has hit me like huge sack of potatoes dropped on my back. Lots and lots of quite pleasant smoke filled up my living room at rapid pace. Draw was open, maybe a bit too open but felt good.
Tasting notes started off with earth and charred wood, then some spice came into play and one more thing I've never experienced before while smoking a cigar - roasted sunflower seeds. I was more and more eager to absorb it all and caught myself smoking a little too quick. I slowed down and waited for it to develop even more, but that was it really. Notes were changing from spice to wood and sunflower seeds almost from puff to puff, but nothing new came up to nearly very end, when I've noticed slight hints of conifer. Shortly after I had to put it down as my fingers were unable to hold it anymore.
Ash seemed to be ok for first third or so.
After I tapped off the first bit, burn became uneven and ash was a bit messy, but that didn't bother me. I enjoyed huge amount of smoke and simple tasting notes.
This is what it looked like after exactly 1 hour and 5 minutes.
From one point of view - smell, size, smoke, draw met my expectations. On the other side of things, it lacked a bit of complexity. It still was a great cigar and I shall buy more. I am glad that it didn't really live up to bad reviews I've seen. Overall experience would be rated as good to very good, I liked it a lot.
Cheers
Tom
Just finished this little beauty and will get straight to the review.
I bought it on 05.07, so it had few weeks in various containers. Not gonna lie, what made me buy this cigar was the band and description.
The Gurkha Ghost Shadow Robusto is a sleek and alluring cigar that should make an appearance in anyone's humidor.
The Ghost blend showcases a dark Brazilian Arapiraca Maduro wrapper complimented by an aged Criollo 1998 binder and carefully selected Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers.
This is a rich, medium bodied cigar with a multi-layered flavour profile providing sweet and earthy undertones with lingering flavours of cocoa and cinnamon.
Measures 5" with a 52 ring guage.
The Ghost blend showcases a dark Brazilian Arapiraca Maduro wrapper complimented by an aged Criollo 1998 binder and carefully selected Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers.
This is a rich, medium bodied cigar with a multi-layered flavour profile providing sweet and earthy undertones with lingering flavours of cocoa and cinnamon.
Measures 5" with a 52 ring guage.
Before I lit it, I wanted to charge my phone to take some photos, so I've spend few minutes with this stick. Construction seemed to be good, springy feel throughout with only one or two barely noticeable harder spots. Wrapper was not the smoothest I've seen, was also a bit veiny, but looked good to my tired eyes. Smell was beautiful, peppery hay sort of thing, very refreshing.
I've cut it using doubble blade cutter and lit it up with trusty Firebird lighter. The amount of smoke has hit me like huge sack of potatoes dropped on my back. Lots and lots of quite pleasant smoke filled up my living room at rapid pace. Draw was open, maybe a bit too open but felt good.
Tasting notes started off with earth and charred wood, then some spice came into play and one more thing I've never experienced before while smoking a cigar - roasted sunflower seeds. I was more and more eager to absorb it all and caught myself smoking a little too quick. I slowed down and waited for it to develop even more, but that was it really. Notes were changing from spice to wood and sunflower seeds almost from puff to puff, but nothing new came up to nearly very end, when I've noticed slight hints of conifer. Shortly after I had to put it down as my fingers were unable to hold it anymore.
Ash seemed to be ok for first third or so.
After I tapped off the first bit, burn became uneven and ash was a bit messy, but that didn't bother me. I enjoyed huge amount of smoke and simple tasting notes.
This is what it looked like after exactly 1 hour and 5 minutes.
From one point of view - smell, size, smoke, draw met my expectations. On the other side of things, it lacked a bit of complexity. It still was a great cigar and I shall buy more. I am glad that it didn't really live up to bad reviews I've seen. Overall experience would be rated as good to very good, I liked it a lot.
Cheers
Tom
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