Gurkha Cellar Reserve Platinum 12 Year Kraken 6" * 60

In 2015, Gurkha releases a more affordable version of their popular line, Gurkha Cellar Reserve. The Platinum version is the first to use Nicaraguan tobacco, 12 year old leaves from Condega, Esteli and Jalapa regions. The wrapper is from Ecuador and the cigars are hand rolled in Esteli, Nicaragua.

The standard Toro shape is 6 inches by 50 ring.

Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.

This cigar is 6 inches long, or 152.4 mm.

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.

The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 60, so his diameter is 60/64 inches or 23.88 mm.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Natural wrapper, also known as Colorado Claro, is light brown in color.

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

Gurkha Cigars is owned by its owner, Kaizad Hansotia. Gurkha does not own a cigar factory but have their cigars made at different factories in Central America and the Caribbean.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Ecuador is the perfect place to grow wrappers, because it is located on the Equator! And it has rich soils too. The weather conditions, with a nearly permanent cloudy sky, provide a natural shade, protecting the wrapper plants from sunshine and allowing the tobacco to grow thin and light. Ecuador supplies Connecticut and Sumatra type wrappers to many cigar factory in the world.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.