Well, this certainly did not go to plan. In the bundle of Kenfessions cigars, a Gurkha (actually, two). Never had one. Mind you, if I were an alien and FoH was my reference point for cigars (which, of course, it is), I would assume that Gurkha cigars were only smoked by the Four Horsemen and that the makers made Bernie Madoff look like Mother Teresa. These are, I have been assured, extremely expensive cigars, for the most part, and yet they are more or less described on FoH as toxic excrement.

As I mentioned, I’ve never had one. The reason for that is mostly that I have never encountered one before. I am 99.9% Cubans only, because that is what I like and what is available to me. It is not because there is simply no FoH love for Gurkhas. To be honest, I’ve always been a little keen to find out if they are as bad as many claim or if it is just a value thing.

This one was marked on the cellophane as the ‘125th Anniversary Rothchild’. I have no idea where that sits in the Gurkha pantheon, but, according to my research on the ever-reliable internet…