Quick Smoke: Gurkha Vintage Shaggy Toro

Each Saturday and Sunday we’ll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief verdict on a single cigar of “buy,” “hold,” or “sell.”

It’s tough to judge a cigar’s qualities when you can’t smoke it. That was my recent experience with two of these six-inch sticks. I tried every trick I could with the first Gurkha Vintage Shaggy—clipping farther down the head, massaging the length of the stick, using a poker. Nothing helped, and after I encountered even greater difficulty with a replacement provided by the shop, I didn’t have the energy to keep trying this $6-8 Dominican puro.

Verdict = Sell.

–George E