Well I've taken it in the shorts in the stock market today, started out the morning with lots of stocks going up, but by noon things turned on me and I'm in the red. So I decided to pay my estimated taxes early (due next month) while I still have some money left. With the last $8 to my name I bought a cigar that I've wanted to try for quite a while.
Gurkha Triple Ligero, Special Edition, Vintage 2004.
WOW this is a beautiful cigar. At $8 per stick, this is the least expensive of the Gurkha brand that I carry in my stores, but it is the one that I thought I would like the most. It did not disappoint me.
The Triple Ligero has an extremely dark, nearly black, Maduro wrapper that is amazingly elastic and very very smooth. In fact it has no blemishes in the wrapper at all, which is probably why its priced so high. The taste is fairly mild but not as sweet as many of the Maduro wrapper cigars that I've smoked. The draw is very smooth, probably because the filler tobacco is all premium long leaf. The ash stays on the cigar until physically knocked off and then stays in one piece after knocking it off. I'm not sure what tobacco is used for the binder.
I'm really loving this wrapper, it is modestly oily, which is pretty characteristic of the Maduro wrappers and has a modest amount of bloom (sometimes called plume) growing on it, which is characteristic of many of the higher grade aged cigars.
Anyone care to join me? I could easily be talked into smoking another one
Gurkha Triple Ligero, Special Edition, Vintage 2004.
WOW this is a beautiful cigar. At $8 per stick, this is the least expensive of the Gurkha brand that I carry in my stores, but it is the one that I thought I would like the most. It did not disappoint me.
The Triple Ligero has an extremely dark, nearly black, Maduro wrapper that is amazingly elastic and very very smooth. In fact it has no blemishes in the wrapper at all, which is probably why its priced so high. The taste is fairly mild but not as sweet as many of the Maduro wrapper cigars that I've smoked. The draw is very smooth, probably because the filler tobacco is all premium long leaf. The ash stays on the cigar until physically knocked off and then stays in one piece after knocking it off. I'm not sure what tobacco is used for the binder.
I'm really loving this wrapper, it is modestly oily, which is pretty characteristic of the Maduro wrappers and has a modest amount of bloom (sometimes called plume) growing on it, which is characteristic of many of the higher grade aged cigars.
Anyone care to join me? I could easily be talked into smoking another one
