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Review: Gurkha Triad Platinum Maduro

For those of you that don’t know… I know, I know… I promised myself I would try not to review another Gurkha cigar as long…

IPCPR 2011: Gurkha

Things seem to be changing at Gurkha, and the IPCPR show was a sign of that. The glitz that one comes to expect, just wasn’t…

Weekly News (July 11, 2011)

Editor’s Note: And here we are. One week out from the IPCPR trade show and things are reaching their peak. Last week saw a host…

Gurkha IPCPR 2011 (Exclusive)

Kaizad Hansotia indicated a few months ago that Gurkha would be seeing a few new B&M-only lines in 2011. He named two lines in particular…

Weekly News (June 6, 2011)

Editor’s Note: On Friday, the IPCPR sent out the much awaited “rules” for the bloggers. It was met with quite a host of criticisms, but…

Weekly News (May 9, 2011)

I could refer to a lot of points of the year as “the calm before the storm.” But, for the month of May that will be the motto. Slowly over the course of the next few weeks details will begin to emerge about the newest releases for the 2011 IPCPR show in Las Vegas,

Weekly News (March 14, 2011)

Add this to the list of things I forgot last week… Illusione is adding a lot of Maduro. I originally was under the impression that…

State of the Brand: Gurkha

Don’t say I don’t listen to our readers. Back in early February, a reader, who I’ll call “John H.” for this article, asked me if…

Weekly News (March 7, 2011)

A week after Jerry Cruz proclaimed that the only one who did news was CA, and everyone else shouldn’t really try; Jerry did a bit…

Weekly News (January 10, 2011)

If there was ever a fun week of news… this is going to be it. It’s an eclectic bit of information. Pete Johnson confirmed what…

Editorial: In Response to the Gurkha Raja

Kaizad Hansotia, founder of Gurkha, and a man who I have a lot of respect for when it comes to reinventing cigar packaging, gave an…