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Rocky Patel vs. Gurkha

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  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    I would think so too, as the vintage line would indicate. '90, '92, '98, some of my favorites by the way Ubino. Try 'em ....I also read an article that Kaizad Hansotia started in the cigar industry in 1989, but before that was in the coffee, tea and tobacco trade in India. re: Cigar. Com magazine March 2008 pg.20.
  • urbinourbino Posts: 4,517
    Thanks, guys. Things like this remind me of just how big the cigar world is. I mean, I wasn't a connoisseur 10 yrs. ago and I didn't read industry mags (and still don't), but I did visit a LOT of different smoke shops in quite a few places, and just never saw either of these brands -- brands that are major, important names in cigars.

    The amount of variety available to us is really incredible. Lucky us.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    kaspera79:
    I would think so too, as the vintage line would indicate. '90, '92, '98, some of my favorites by the way Ubino. Try 'em ....I also read an article that Kaizad Hansotia started in the cigar industry in 1989, but before that was in the coffee, tea and tobacco trade in India. re: Cigar. Com magazine March 2008 pg.20.
    I'm almost positive Gurkha was around 10 years ago but was still a boutique brand and wasn't carried in heavy quantities then. Rocky Patel's lines WERE NOT around 10 years ago, back then he only sold Indian Tabac cigars. The vintage lines are tobacco he bought from a defunct General Cigar line. They had abandoned the project years before and RP picked up some well aged tobacco at a reasonable price and thus launched his RP line and more or less abandoned ITC.
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    i just said earlier today that i learn something from this forum every day. today this is it.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    Me too man. There is a lot more to the story but I figured that was a good enough synopsis. Did you also know Rocky pays Indian motorcycles royalties to use the name Indian Tabac?
  • urbinourbino Posts: 4,517
    Thanks for the update, maddy.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    urbino:
    Thanks for the update, maddy.
    Sure thing! What good is all this reading I do if I can't share it?
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    madurofan:
    urbino:
    Thanks for the update, maddy.
    Sure thing! What good is all this reading I do if I can't share it?
    no good at all
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    kuzi16:
    madurofan:
    urbino:
    Thanks for the update, maddy.
    Sure thing! What good is all this reading I do if I can't share it?
    no good at all
    Amen, brother kuzi!
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    heck i try and do the same thing. if you look through a bunch of my posts youll see links to all kinds of cigar info sites.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    I know! It beats the alternative too, actually doing work while I'm at work? What kind of fun would that be?
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    i cant check the forum at work.... its sad really.
  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the correct info, Maduro, thats why I always throw the (...I think ) disclaimer in there. I stand corrected
  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    Maduro is the encyclopedia of cigar info, Is all this stuff commited to memory or the ability to search the 'net at super human speeds ? Your right Kuzi you can learn something every day.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    kaspera79:
    Maduro is the encyclopedia of cigar info, Is all this stuff commited to memory or the ability to search the 'net at super human speeds ? Your right Kuzi you can learn something every day.
    A little of both. I enjoy learning about cigars as much as smoking them. So if you guys start talking about something I'm not knowledgable about, and Kuzi doesn't immediately educate us, then I go do some research. Honestly I know as much as I do bc I have never been scared to ask questions.
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    madurofan:
    kaspera79:
    Maduro is the encyclopedia of cigar info, Is all this stuff commited to memory or the ability to search the 'net at super human speeds ? Your right Kuzi you can learn something every day.
    A little of both. I enjoy learning about cigars as much as smoking them. So if you guys start talking about something I'm not knowledgable about, and Kuzi doesn't immediately educate us, then I go do some research. Honestly I know as much as I do bc I have never been scared to ask questions.
    ummm... yes.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    huh?
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    madurofan:
    Honestly I know as much as I do bc I have never been scared to ask questions.
    that. its true. i ask a bunch of questions. i read online way too much. i want to be corrected when im wrong so that i learn what is right.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    As do I!
  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    We are all lucky to have all the answers to every question at our fingertips. Billions of answers just a few clikcks away. What did we do before the Technology / Computer Age ? What are we calling it now.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    There was a time before computer? What did you old people do back then? LOL just kidding.
  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    Very funny Maduro, we asked questions like, There was a time before television ? What did people do then..
  • urbinourbino Posts: 4,517
    It was tough. We had to fight Sleestaks and T. Rex's and such.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    LMAO you guys are killing me! I was just kidding with ya.
  • kaspera79kaspera79 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭
    Don't worry about it. Madoro I would be the first to joke with you given the chance. I truely do not care, we are all here to have fun. Sell that Ranger yet ?
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    I know kas, I'm just giving you guys a hard time while I still can before I know it I'll be the old man. Nope you interested?
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    Hey Kuzi ...














    Gurkha's suck.
  • That's not very nice maddy...


    I've smoked more Gurkah's than I have RP's but I'm yet to find a RP that I don't like. I enjoy both Niceraguan and Honduran tobacco.
  • madurofanmadurofan Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭
    Its an old joke TFH, just an old joke. I too have a few Gurkha's that I thoroughly enjoy. I have an issue more with Gurkha's image than their product much like Davidoff.
  • madurofan:
    Its an old joke TFH, just an old joke.
    I know. My response was supposed to be a joke too.
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