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News: Gurkha Ships Limited East India Cargo Chest

Gurkha’s newest sampler is big, physically. The East India Cargo Chest is a 284-cigar chest that contains previously unreleased vitolas for the company’s Red Witch and Wicked Indie lines. Shipments of the chest to retailers began last week with a retail price of $1,700.00. Both blends received three unique vitolas. The chest contains: 48 Wicked [...]

Weekly News (July 9, 2012)

Editor’s Note: For the first time in almost three months, the 2012 cigar release list has been updated. Unfortunately a PHP error was preventing the updating, something that required moving servers, which we did in the middle of last week. While more than 250 entries were either updated or added over the weekend, there’s still [...]

Press Release: East India Trading Company to Release the Red Witch

July 3, 2012 (Miami, FL) — The East India Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Gurkha Cigar Group, Inc are proud to announce the upcoming launch of the ‘Red Witch’, which will ‘set sail’ at this year’s IPCPR trade show at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL on August 2-6th. Red Witch is [...]

Weekly News (July 2, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Yesterday marked six months of halfwheel. Brooks and I still haven’t spoken at all about the relatively minor anniversary, but given each member of our staff once ran a cigar blog – six months is oftentimes a lot longer than most of these last. Over the next few weeks, particularly leading into IPCPR, [...]

Press Release: Beach Cigar Group Set To Release The ‘Wicked Indie’

  November 2nd, 2011 (Miami, FL) — Be on the lookout for the Goblin as the Beach Cigar Group, makers of the super premium cigar brand Gurkha, proudly announces the release of the much anticipated ‘Wicked Indie,’ that arrives at cigar stores nationwide this November. The Wicked Indie is the first cigar release under the [...]