{"id":15,"date":"2008-04-11T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecigarstore.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:19:26","slug":"new-limited-edition-cigar-from-gurkha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecigarstore.com\/blog\/new-limited-edition-cigar-from-gurkha\/","title":{"rendered":"New Limited Edition Cigar From Gurkha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, April 7 \u2013 Kaizad Hansotia missed his calling. The head of the Gurkha cigar empire should have been in television programming.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences are always asking for new and different kinds of entertainment and for the cigar smoker, few can match his track record for inventiveness, presentation and flair. Welcome the Gurkha Signature 1887.<\/p>\n<p>This newest blend has a personal aspect to it, as Hansotia notes his family\u2019s history. \u201c1887 was the year my family entered the world of business and commerce,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir first venture was a long-lived, successful import-export business. Commerce and prestige items have been a part of my family\u2019s heritage ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Made in Honduras as with almost all of the Gurkha lines, the Signature 1887 is offered in just one shape, a 6 1\/2-inch by 55-ring toro, but in two styles. The 1887 Red uses an aged Connecticut Shade wrapper while the 1887 Black has a Nicaraguan-grown wrapper, but both blends such a common, Dominican-grown binder. The filler is the same for both styles, but is unique in itself, using powerful Peruvian tobaccos and East Indian leaf, heretofore mostly unknown for use in cigars. Hansotia uses the Indian filler as a tribute to his own heritage: \u201cMy father founded a watch-manufacturing company in India in 1950,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>These are flavorful cigars, but aren\u2019t expected to overpower most smokers. They will be \u2013 as is typical for the Gurkha line \u2013 a treat for the eye, packaged in chests of 48 cigars each in either a red lacquer or black lacquer finish, depending on the style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe launched the line with 300 boxes of each,\u201d said Hansotia, \u201cwhich were sold out in four days. 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[&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecigarstore.com\/blog\/new-limited-edition-cigar-from-gurkha\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Limited Edition Cigar From Gurkha<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Limited Edition Cigar From Gurkha - The Cigar Store<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecigarstore.com\/blog\/new-limited-edition-cigar-from-gurkha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Limited Edition Cigar From Gurkha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Los Angeles, April 7 \u2013 Kaizad Hansotia missed his calling. 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