The Gurkha Way

(Cigar Aficionado) "I was young and drunk off my ass at a beach in Goa [India]," says Kaizad Hansotia. Some 26 years later, the head of Gurkha is in his headquarters in an industrial park in Florida, recalling his unlikely entry into the cigar business. "There was a guy selling cigars out of a little hut, and they were branded Gurkha. I was intrigued." Three bottles of rum later, he had bought all the shop's wares as gifts for the customers of his duty-free business and then acquired the entire brand for a mere $149. Continued