Gurkha Vintage Shaggy Toro Cigar Review

This 6x50 stick features an open foot without binder or wrapper, the rest a dark brown firmly packed satin finished leaf with minimal veins, tight invisible seams, large double cap and faint cedar aroma. First light reveals a loose draw with plentiful rich full bodied smoke showing flavors of a zingy peppery earth and wood combo with a long textured finish. The first third, after igniting the wrapper and binder, shifts to a very soft cashew and cream with a medium-full body, super smooth smoke, long finish with a touch of pepper and a dry almost cottonmouth effect. Burn is decent but fast with a perfect draw and plentiful smoke output even off the resting foot. The 1/2 way point comes at a quick 25 minutes dropping the ash in a solid chunk. Performance is flawless and the profile shifts to a deeper earth wood and pepper more reminiscent of the first light time frame. Ending at 50 minutes the tail end all of a sudden went to an overwhelming burned meat/charcoal taste so I ended it. Construction remained excellent all the way down.