Gurkha Nepalese Warrior

[Wurm]

Double D and I went 50/50 on a CI special a year or so a go that included two Mazos of Gurkha Legends and a 12 pack of Nepalese Warriors. I reviewed the Legends a while back and to honor Marc's contest I decided to revisit the GNW today.

Size: 6.0 x 52
Wrapper: Cameroon
Binder: Indonesian
Filler: Cuban Seed Ligero, Dominican Piloto
MSRP: $6.99 each
Stated Strength: Medium

Sunshine in Germany? NO WAY! :0 Well I might as well take advantage of it and drink a cold beer too!

Nice box pressed shape, silky smooth reddish-brown wrapper and... hardly any smell at all, uh-oh.

My smoking companion was not impressed.

At least the beer tastes as good as it looks!

And away we go! I lit the GNW and it was as I feared, hardly any taste at all. A few hints of spice from the Cameroon wrapper but that was it. And it stayed that way for over the first two inches.

The burn was uneven due to the thick wrapper and the ash was an ugly dark and light grey swirl, it was also very loose and flaky and fell off at the slightest provocation.

And she stayed unimpressed, and this speaks volumes about this cigar, as I've mentioned in prior reviews, normally my cat is all over me whenever I light up a good cigar. With the GNW she looked up, yawned and went back to sleep.

I also decided I had enough. When a cigar gets bitter I'll try to work on it by either purging or letting it sit and calm down a bit. But when a cigar gets boring, there is no hope for it and it goes into the big ashtray in the sky.

Thanks for the contest Marc, it was fun!

Shawn

P.S. A few others of my 6er were better than the one I reviewed, but not by much. I will not be buying them again.

out of :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

 

[Shooter]

Thanks for the review I have the same feeling about these smokes, very one dimensional and just and okay cigar.

 

[Wurm]

Thanks for the review I have the same feeling about these smokes, very one dimensional and just an okay cigar.

And its a damn shame too Shane, if they tasted as good as they looked they would be awesome.

 

[Brickhouse]

Hey Shawn,

Why is it whenever I see your reviews I always end up more thirsty than wanting a cigar? :laugh:

Great stuff as always bro.

 

[Wurm]

Hey Shawn,

Why is it whenever I see your reviews I always end up more thirsty than wanting a cigar? :laugh:

I have good taste in beer ??? :laugh:

Thanks!

BTW I'm drinking a Keller beer right now

 

[jcollector1]

generaly speaking from personal experience Gurka's SUCK!!!

 

[MX]

generaly speaking from personal experience Gurka's SUCK!!!

Come on, tell us how you really feel

Tim

 

[Putz Mulligan]

I had a wonderful smoking day today. When i was getting ready for work i decided to break out one of my personal fav's (although ive had a bad one or 2) the Rocky Patel Olde World Reserve Maduro Toro. I also grabed a Gurka Special Edition Centurian Perfecto....

generaly speaking from personal experience Gurka's SUCK!!!

So does your spelling.............twice? :sign: GURKHA

Sorry Brother, had to to hit before CC jumped you......thanks for the sport!

 

[CoventryCat86]

I had a wonderful smoking day today. When i was getting ready for work i decided to break out one of my personal fav's (although ive had a bad one or 2) the Rocky Patel Olde World Reserve Maduro Toro. I also grabed a Gurka Special Edition Centurian Perfecto....

generaly speaking from personal experience Gurka's SUCK!!!

So does your spelling.............twice? :sign: GURKHA

Sorry Brother, had to to hit before CC jumped you......thanks for the sport!

:laugh:

I have to look up how to spell Gurkha every time I post it!

Nice review Shawn, I like your "smoking companion's" take on this cigar.

I'm not a big Gurkha fan. I've never tried this particular one and I certainly won't go out of my way to track one down now. Thanks again wurm! :thumbs:

 

[H311oLHD]

Great review, great cat, amazing looking beer!!!!

Thanks for saving me time :thumbs: :thumbs:

 

[Michal]

I really like your reviews Shawn, and I wish this cigar was better becaue I think review would be longer... and also better
After all nice read

Ps. You get it from CI, right? Did they ship it to You? or it was with some US brothers help?

 

[Wurm]

I really like your reviews Shawn, and I wish this cigar was better becaue I think review would be longer... and also better
After all nice read

Ps. You get it from CI, right? Did they ship it to You? or it was with some US brothers help?

CI ships to the US Army Post Office (APO) Michal

And yeah I would have loved to have been able to described all the flavors I noticed... but there wasn't any!

 

[vortex]

I've had mixed experiences with this stick. The first was very good shortly after their release. I ordered more and they arrived all dried out! I returned them requesting more and got more - dries out sticks! I tried once more figuring no way would it happen three times. WRONG!!!

Through the years I've had some bad and some good shipments from CI. I think they put returned orders back in inventory that should be tossed. I have since limited my orders from CI to mostly sealed boxes.

Steve

 

[jcollector1]

They suck so bad its not worth typing the name out correctly....


:laugh:

 

[ckeller52]

BTW I'm drinking a Keller beer right now

Um.. you're welcome. :thumbs:

 

[Brickhouse]

BTW I'm drinking a Keller beer right now

My favorite beer of all time......St. Georgenbrau Kellerbier. I long for those days when I could get it in a 1L mug.

 

[JHolmes763]

I got to smoke one of these and was very unimpressed, too. I like the Regents and Legends and high hopes for these, but it just smoked like a dried out roll of paper...

Thanks for the review.

 

[vortex]

I got to smoke one of these and was very unimpressed, too. I like the Regents and Legends and high hopes for these, but it just smoked like a dried out roll of paper...

Thanks for the review.

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who had that experience! :laugh: I also am a big Regents fan. Now I'm even leery of bidding on those after my experience with the "Warrior". How could those nitwits dry out all those cigars?? Fortunate there's lots of good cigars to wash the crappy taste away!


Steve