Gurkha Black Puro Toro
Posted by Dicksbain on 24 May 2007 at 07:18 am | Tagged as: Cigar Reviews
I ordered a cube (not box) of these from a CI weekly special a few months ago. I’ve now smoked about 12 of them and fell I’m ready to give an honest review…
Construction is top notch, like with most Gurkhas. The wrapper is, as you would expect, very dark. Several prominent veins. It’s got double-bands with the “crazy man w/ sword” logo. Overall, a handsome stick.
Flavor is powerful from the pre-light all the way to the end. These are fullest bodied cigars. While I like a strong cigar, I found the lack of complexity the real show stopper for me. These simply taste of strong tar-wood the whole way through. There are some odd and bitter tastes at points too.
These cigars may calm down a bit with age, so I plan to keep a few in the humidor to rest. I think they’ll mature nicely and maybe even gain some complexity in flavor. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this cigar. It may have a place late in the evening after a few other cigars have been smoked and you need something powerful to reach your exhausted taste buds.
LT Rating: 4.0/10 
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Good review.
I’m also disappointed in the trend to make cigars STRONG vs. FULL.
I love full bodied cigars but I’d rather have a great / complex medium bodied smoke than a boring one that just tries to be “strong”
I just smoked one of these guys last night, and I wasn’t really sure what I thought of it. To be honest, I’m still not. I definitely agree with you that it is both very full bodied, but lacking in in complexity. In the notes I took, I called it a “big, oily, undead beast”. (It’s gotta be the oiliest cigar I’ve smoked in a long time. And it wasn’t about to go out for me or anyone else.)
Thanks for the review. You wouldn’t happen to have any of the details on this cigar, would you? I couldn’t find any information on it in my Perelman’s guide… At least not by the “Black Puro” moniker.