Gurkha Red Witch XO 6" * 60

The Gurkha Red Witch cigar is the second cigar released by Gurkha under its subsidiary the East India Trading Company. This release is also meant to be a high quality, affordable smoke, so the company offers them in simple bulk packaging of 50 count boxes. The Red Witch is handmade with Nicaraguan and Jalapa filler tobaccos, Dominican binder and a stunning Rosado wrapper from Ecuador. Box pressed, the Red Witch is a medium bodied cigar that provides the pleasant experience you look for in an everyday cigar.

The standard Toro shape is 6 inches by 50 ring.

A box pressed cigar is a cigar that has a square shape. Originally, this shape came from the practice of packing round cigars tightly in cardboard boxes which are then compacted using a manual press. The cigars are thus pressed into each other and become a "squarish" or semi-square shape. Today, cigar makers use square shaped molds or a wooden trunk press for their box pressed cigars, achieving a more defined square section.

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.
Colorado is a medium brown color also known as EMS or English Market Selection as this used to be the color with more popularity in England than in America.

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.
Dominican Republic is a traditional tobacco-growing country. In the 60's, a Cuban seed was introduced and the resulting tobacco, called Piloto Cubano, became famous as a good substitute of the Cuban tobacco that was no longer allowed to enter the USA. Piloto Cubano is full bodied while the Dominican Olor tobacco is milder but more aromatic.

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