Various Blends
Fairwind
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Put my order in for some cigars for the month and noticed a few makers have gone off the deep end. What I mean is who blends 37 different blends?
When you look at the list for the "Classics" Partagas, Upmann, Hoyo ect you see maybe 5 or 6 blends. They make a good cigar and keep it at a high level. When you buy one of these cigars you know pretty much what to expect and are willing to pay the price.
Then we come to the other makers such as Gurkha - 39 "Blends"; Rocky Patel 33 and Perdomo at 27. Come on guys really?
I stick with about 3 blends with RP, Edge, Sun Grown and Cuban.
Gurkha and Perdomo I have only had from samplers. From what I remember the Perdomos were good.
The Gurkhas on the other hand were the worst constructed and nastiest tasting cigars I have ever had - no better than a machine made. Maybe Gurkha should kick all the blends and concentrate on a core 6 or so and really make them into classics.
To Cigar.com, please stop putting the Gurkhas in almost every sampler, you'll probably increase the sales of them if you do -
These are just my opinions of course. Just been smoking cigars for 40+ years.
How do you guys feel about this?
When you look at the list for the "Classics" Partagas, Upmann, Hoyo ect you see maybe 5 or 6 blends. They make a good cigar and keep it at a high level. When you buy one of these cigars you know pretty much what to expect and are willing to pay the price.
Then we come to the other makers such as Gurkha - 39 "Blends"; Rocky Patel 33 and Perdomo at 27. Come on guys really?
I stick with about 3 blends with RP, Edge, Sun Grown and Cuban.
Gurkha and Perdomo I have only had from samplers. From what I remember the Perdomos were good.
The Gurkhas on the other hand were the worst constructed and nastiest tasting cigars I have ever had - no better than a machine made. Maybe Gurkha should kick all the blends and concentrate on a core 6 or so and really make them into classics.
To Cigar.com, please stop putting the Gurkhas in almost every sampler, you'll probably increase the sales of them if you do -
These are just my opinions of course. Just been smoking cigars for 40+ years.
How do you guys feel about this?
Comments
to me some of the worst construction outside of gurkha has come from non cuban upmann and cohibas. Ranging from wrappers that were too thin to much to tight draws. that's why i tend to like cigars made by individuals rather than larger companies that gobble up the small guys or well known names that they trademarked. I'll stick to my Crowned Heads, tatuaje, Caldwell, Don Pepin (bigger now i know), 1502, AKA, Padron, and LFD.
They were loosely rolled and just plain tasted bad. I really was expecting something better. This was a about 6 years ago when Gurkha was all that. Who knows, maybe they have improved.
Dan
I got a Iron Horse in a sampler, it wasn't bad and the box price was good so I bought a few boxes and then reordered more. You can find low priced gems in the samplers.
The reason I posted was the number of blends, not just because I didn't like Gurkhas. Who knows, maybe I'll get another one in a sampler and it'll be the best cigar in the bunch.
I will rarely buy a sampler anymore unless I call up ccom and put together some sticks I have been wanting to try. That's the way to go!!