Gurkha Legend - Warlord

Here in the northeast we recently had a warm spell that lasted all of one night (not quite global warming going from the 20s to 50 deg. but it will do ;).. I usually pick up a fist full of cigars of various brands from time to time from my local cigar guy (paying homage to Satin Jack's Cigar Room), so this time I pulled the Gurkha Legend - Warlord from my humidor for a late afternoon smoke as the sun in its waning hour turned the clouds and the surrounding trees a pale pink and gold.... ahhh the life.. ;-)

The Warlord is a nicely stout cigar with its dimensions at 7" in length and a 55 ring gauge. I've read in the past that this is a strong cigar, and I didn't find that to be the case. Either my palate is getting more conditioned to this, or the characterization by the reviewer I read was a little overstated. All in all, from the initial light, I found this cigar to be a little on the strong side with a finish reminiscent of white pepper notes. The draw was not too hard, but a little harder than what I would term comfortable with flavor notes that can be described as an earthy coffee which was a very smooth flavor finishing with that slight white pepper I referred too earlier.

This is a great smoke, which I will say requires like many cigars... a good quiet hour or so.... Enjoy!