Gurkha Ships Beauty 25th Anniversary
The Gurkha Beauty 25th Anniversary is on its way to stores, as the company announced that it began shipping the cigars to stores today.
It’ a 6 1/2 x 60 vitola, and like many Gurkha releases, it gets a dressed-up presentation, as each cigar comes with an oversized, holographic band, and then gets placed in a frosted tube with a rose gold cap, with 25 tubed cigars offered in a cherry box with winged lid panels that open up to reveal the cigar. Pricing is set at $30 per cigar and $750 per box.
As for the blend, it uses an Ecuadorian corojo wrapper, a Nicaraguan binder, and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Ecuador. The blend is different from the original Gurkha Beauty, which used a Connecticut wrapper.
“It’s been 25 years since Gurkha first introduced the Beauty and it’s still a favorite cigar amongst connoisseurs, so we decided to do a special release on the Beauty honoring the 25-year anniversary,” said Jim Colucci, president and ceo of Gurkha Cigars, via a press release.
The cigars are produced at Tabacalera Las Lavas in the Dominican Republic. The company says it is a regular production line, though the first batch is limited to 1,000 boxes. Plans for subsequent productions have not been announced.
Image courtesy of Gurkha Cigar Group.
Patrick Lagreid
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