Building on the success of its 125th Anniversary release in October 2012, Gurkha decided to add a trio of cigars to the line in the summer of 2013, with the cigars being unveiled at the 2013 IPCPR Convention and Trade Show. Joining the company’s portfolio were a pair of 6 x 60s, one that used an Connecticut broadleaf maduro wrapper and the other that used an Ecuadorian Connecticut shade-grown wrapper, and a 6 x 52 toro that used a Honduran corojo wrapper. Each sits on top of an Ecuadorian habano binder and filler leaves from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Honduras. At the trade show, Juan Lopez, the company’s national sales director, told Charlie Minato that Gurkha was focusing more on extending some of its more popular brands instead of introducing completely new brands. For the history of the Gurkha 125th Anniversary line, we have to go back to a press release issued in July 2012, which proclaimed that: The year 2012 commemorates the 125th Anniversary of the Gurkha cigar, where it was this year back in 1887, at the height of the British rule that colonial soldiers first began to smoke and enjoy their own cigars from local tobacco. The fondness of the ...
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