Gurkha Cellar Reserve 21 Year Kraken - XO is the 5th instalment in the limited-edition Cellar Reserve line. The reason this line is a limited edition is because the tobacco therein is so rare that the company can never maintain regular production. The Gurkha Cellar Reserve 21 years XO does have 21-year-old Dominican tobacco. In addition to the aged Dominican tobacco, Gurkha Cellar Reserve 21 years has premium Nicaraguan longleaf in the filler and binder. Then the entire thing is cloaked in a flawless Connecticut Shade wrapper.
Tastes: It opens with a fusion of sweet chocolate notes, wet wood, and a bitter nuance drowning in rich creaminess. The complexity does not tarry in showing up because a few draws in the sweet notes disappear and a salty meaty flavour takes over. There is a lingering toasty wafer-like note coupled with creaminess cutting through the salt and herb-like dominant flavor. As the cigar progresses into the mid-section, a citrus zing along with a dried fruit nuance show up isolated from the dominant flavours and prominent in the Retrohale. Somewhere in the deliciousness is fresh pine and a carpet of creaminess coating my tongue and the back of my throat.
Specifications:
- Wrapper: Connecticut Shade
- Binder: Dominican, Nicaraguan
- Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan
- Country of Origin: Dominican Republic