Comments on: Gurkha X-Fuerte

By: Brad in buffalo

Brad in buffalo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:15:51 +0000

Only Gurkha I liked…

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:05:22 +0000

I’ve had the Gurkha x Fuerte in toro size and experience was similar to the review above. Mine haad a burn problem, however, and I needed to relight twice. All in all, a disappointing smoke for a relatively costly cigar. I actually prefer the Indian Tabac Super Fuerte alone these lines. Cheap but good.

By: CAO Sopranos Associate: A Cigar Is Not A Box « Brian’s Random Thoughts

Wed, 02 May 2007 02:50:16 +0000

[...] me was remember Walt from Stogie Review mentioning in one of his video clips (I think it was the Gurkha X-Fuerte review) that he didn’t like doing review based on a single cigar. He didn’t elaborate, but the [...]

By: Steven L. Armstrong

Steven L. Armstrong — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:25:10 +0000

Walt.
Thanks for another great review!
I purchased a mazo of 12 cigars from cigarbid.com for $48.99 on 04/12/2007 and sampled one cigar from the lot while placing the remainder in my coolerdor. My notes from this REALLY bad experience follows.

04/15/2007 – Pre-light: Not much aroma or taste. The wrapper and binder were split from the foot 3/4″ into the body of the cigar. The wrapper cracked several places in the middle of the cigar while I was smoking the 1st third. I suspect that this cigar was too moist to smoke. 1st third was mild in mouth and medium through nose with no spice. The wrapper splitting got much worse as the burn point neared the split area. The binder split as well and smoke poured out of the sides of the cigar. The draw became too loose due to the split binder. I decided to try to “smoke through” this mess and managed to get by a full inch and a half of split wrapper and binder. What a chore! At the 1/2 way point the cigar was only slightly stronger, especially through the nose – still no hints of spice. The wrapper still split completely off of the cigar and the binder swelled as it burned. I continued to have splitting issues for the remainder of the cigar. Even at the end, I would not rate this cigar as full strength. The remaining 11 cigars I purchased will age for several months before I try them again.

I purchased these cigars because they were advertised as being the strongest sticks that Gurkha offers. Boy, was I disappointed! Hopefully they will improve with some age.

Unlike you, I prefer full strength, large cigars. My current favorites are La Gloria Cubana, Serie R 7s, Partagas Black Labels, and 5 Vegas, Series “A”s.

P.S.
I always enjoy your visits on the DWSC.

Thanks again for your efforts. Keep up the good work.
Steve

By: Cigar Jack

Cigar Jack — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:29:11 +0000

I like the video clips idea! I thought about doing it also but I’m trying to increase my traffic, not drive it away. LOL

By: bill h

bill h — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:36:26 +0000

Walt,

if you are ever gifted another one of these, perhaps you can smoke the first third, clip the second, and end up with a tolerable ~2 hour smoke =)

By: Dave Hanifan

Dave Hanifan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:00:03 +0000

Walt,

Good review. I got two of these in the cigar of the month club from CI and I had a similiar opinion of them you do. Well, not being as technical as you are, my thoughts were I just didn’t like them heh. Comparing them to other Maduro wrapper cigars, well, personally, I thought they just were too average???? I like the Series A cigars better in flavor. And they are a middle of the road maduro as well to most, but I like them. I’d put the Gurkha X-Fuerte below the Series A. The X-Fuerte just wasn’t what I was expecting.

Oh, by the way, I love the breaks you put in on your video showing pictures of the cigar with music. Nice touch.

Dave