Ramon Allones Specially Selected - ROA July 2011 (FRC)

[boopdeep]

Purchased this box in late 2011 and smoked many of them young.  They were excellent, supported my love of habanos, and made RASS a go-to cigar for me.  I let about 1/2 the box rest for a few years and when I returned to them, they were funky and all over the place.  Let them sit for a few more years, and returned to them tonight.  It was a treat. 

Overall it was very mellow and the overwhelming flavor was floral.  

It started off light and floral with some fruitiness coming through -- peaches, apples, and raisins. 

At the end of the first third, there was a glimmer of cardamom that lasted just long enough to make a memory. 

In the second third, creaminess started to come through, which I can't recall that I had experienced with RASS before.  Fruit flavors remained -- stone fruit.  It was a creamy peach.  Continued to stay very mellow and continued to trend to more mellowness. 

While the creaminess slowly faded, the floral flavors remained throughout and near the end.  Interestingly, the stone fruit transitioned to a stewed fruit flavor.  Nubbed it. 

It was an excellent cigar, easily a 93/94 for me.  A pleasant surprise as I was skeptical these would come back.  

If I had to sum up the flavor experience: floral and fruity.  A peach carnation.  

 

 

[Derboesekoenig]

That sounds amazing. I have yet to try the RASS. What box code was it? Have you smoked any more recent ones, and if so, do they seem to stay fairly consistent or nah?

[boopdeep]

This was from box code ROA July 2011.

i have smoked newer production and find them consistently good.  Stewed fruit.  And now I can say that I find that they age well too. 

The price Rob has for the 50-cabs make it a no-brainer to me.  I’m rarely disappointed by a RASS. 

 

 

[WABOOM]

On Wednesday I smoked my first RASS and it was literally the best cigar I've ever had.

[Derboesekoenig]

Ok I'm sold. I'll look for 50 cabs when I head to Cuba next month. Hopefully I can find at least one!

[SCgarman]

That is a good wrapper color for the RASS. I have had boxes of RASS with very dark borderline Maduro wrappers and do not like them at all. Colorado, Colorado/Claro are ideal. There is definitely a difference in flavor profile.

[liquid360]

RASS have become my go to smoke. Between the RASS and the RA Club, I smoke a few a day. Have bought over a hundred the past couple weeks. I have little doubt they become epic with time, but damn I love them now.

[rtrinidad18]

im patiently waiting for Rob to get some RASS in for me to get.... havent had a chance to have one but i did try the club corona and enjoyed it... tnx for the review

[Canoli]

Same here on the RASS I have a box of PSP resting. Gonna be a few more months before I break into them. I hope I have a similar experience with these. 

[TheMonk]

Good job! Can't really go wrong with RASS, specially if you give them some time.

[liquid360]

Good job! Can't really go wrong with RASS, specially if you give them some time.

Who has time?!?! They are soooo good now! Carpe Diem!!!


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[GotaCohiba]

On 6/2/2018 at 12:59 PM, Derboesekoenig said:

Ok I'm sold. I'll look for 50 cabs when I head to Cuba next month. Hopefully I can find at least one!

Plenty of them available

[Derboesekoenig]

Yeah i caved and bought one on 24:24. So i can try before i go. At least that's how i justified it...and all my other 24:24 purchases. I'm starting to figure out it's hard to say no. 

[ElReyDel757]

On 6/2/2018 at 12:26 PM, WABOOM said:

On Wednesday I smoked my first RASS and it was literally the best cigar I've ever had.

My first Cuban from our host was a RASS from the New to Habanos sampler in 2016.  It remains the best cigar I've ever had.  It was very rich and I got huge mushroom taste, coffee, raisins, forest floor and hints of floral.  I would love to know the general age of cigars bought from a CUNTINT sampler. My 25 dressbox of TOR NOV 15 RASS is excellent, but nowhere near the 1 from the sampler.

[BinBin]

i need a psp cab