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[connoiseur29]

Box: JWI NOV 05

Paired with: Chivas 18 year old

Wrapper, milk chocolate and toothy, not very oily

The prelight aroma on this was pleasant tobacco, it was a beautiful fragrant aroma. I sat down on my porch as the rain and winds and lightning passed around and on lighting this smoke, got a slight hint of mint. The burn began and slowly notes of a bitter cocoa began to find my palate. It was a cocoa that found itself intermixed with notes of sweet, dark cherry. As time went on and I got to about the 1/3 mark, there was a steady stream of bittersweet chocolate and cherry hints. Every so often, hints of roasted almond and hazelnut touched my palate. Then, the cocoa, sweet tobacco and occasional cherry notes returned. At about the halfway point, I felt a tingling in my lips and a sudden rush of jalapenos hit my palate and lingered for about 10 minutes or so, before returning to cocoa. A hint of spice and sweet cocoa followed before turning to a floral/vegetal taste that persisted for only a short while. The cocoa rebounded at about the 2/3 mark and continued with the roasted hazelnut taste. The burn was razor sharp the whole while, even, cool and steady. The draw was not too tight, but not quite as loose as I would rate the best smokes. Mounds of smoke rose from this cigar and as I progressed to the nub, it was bitter chocolate spice (like baking chocolate) and hints of jalapenos and cinnamon mixed in. The rain and lightning picked up and my smoke had just about ended. It was time for me to seek shelter. But what a great smoke, pleasant aftertaste and well, we all know that these are great smokes. This was just an opportunity to evaluate current production RASS. They are still RASS, time after time. I rate it about a 90. Age as we know, makes these cigars wonderful.

[Lemon]

Very nice review! I love the RASS and hopefully will have a chance and afford buying a box of these in the future.

[El Presidente]

To my taste....the best young Habanos of all!

Great review!

[puros71]

» Box: JWI NOV 05

» Paired with: Chivas 18 year old

» Wrapper, milk chocolate and toothy, not very oily

»

» The prelight aroma on this was pleasant tobacco, it was a beautiful

» fragrant aroma. I sat down on my porch as the rain and winds and

» lightning passed around and on lighting this smoke, got a slight hint of

» mint. The burn began and slowly notes of a bitter cocoa began to find my

» palate. It was a cocoa that found itself intermixed with notes of sweet,

» dark cherry. As time went on and I got to about the 1/3 mark, there was a

» steady stream of bittersweet chocolate and cherry hints. Every so often,

» hints of roasted almond and hazelnut touched my palate. Then, the cocoa,

» sweet tobacco and occasional cherry notes returned. At about the halfway

» point, I felt a tingling in my lips and a sudden rush of jalapenos hit my

» palate and lingered for about 10 minutes or so, before returning to cocoa.

» A hint of spice and sweet cocoa followed before turning to a

» floral/vegetal taste that persisted for only a short while. The cocoa

» rebounded at about the 2/3 mark and continued with the roasted hazelnut

» taste. The burn was razor sharp the whole while, even, cool and steady.

» The draw was not too tight, but not quite as loose as I would rate the

» best smokes. Mounds of smoke rose from this cigar and as I progressed to

» the nub, it was bitter chocolate spice (like baking chocolate) and hints

» of jalapenos and cinnamon mixed in. The rain and lightning picked up and

» my smoke had just about ended. It was time for me to seek shelter. But

» what a great smoke, pleasant aftertaste and well, we all know that these

» are great smokes. This was just an opportunity to evaluate current

» production RASS. They are still RASS, time after time. I rate it about a

» 90. Age as we know, makes these cigars wonderful.

I recently bought a box a few months ago. JWI OCT 05. Very nice aroma. I love these smokes, very spicy and sweet taste. Out of the bunch I have smoked I have not had a bad one. I recently gifted one to a client of mine who is a big NC cigar smoker. I asked him if he ever tried a Cuban. He said he has tried Cohibas, in my mind I was thinking he probably smoked a fake. I told him to come back the next day to my office. I gave him one of my RASS robustos and he went on his way.So he comes back about a week later and tells me "Damn that was one hellava smoke!" I just smiled:-)

[dogbreath]

Yes, they even get better with age. Thanks for the review! :-)

[tacmedic]

the RASS is in my top 3 favorites, and I try to always keep them on hand...

[Loki]

JWI OCT 05

Simply marvelous. I've smoked a couple and my experience is very similiar to yours. BTW great review. The rest must go to sleep for a couple of years unless I buy another box.

[bassman]

» JWI OCT 05

»

» Simply marvelous. I've smoked a couple and my experience is very similiar

» to yours. BTW great review. The rest must go to sleep for a couple of

» years unless I buy another box.

The entire RA line has been smoking well young lately. And any cigar worth buying is worth buying 2 boxes or a cab at a time.

[josie67]

» » JWI OCT 05

» »

» » Simply marvelous. I've smoked a couple and my experience is very

» similiar

» » to yours. BTW great review. The rest must go to sleep for a couple of

» » years unless I buy another box.

»

» The entire RA line has been smoking well young lately. And any cigar worth

» buying is worth buying 2 boxes or a cab at a time.

Review was so good, I will break a RASS out tomorrow!

[Loki]

» The entire RA line has been smoking well young lately. And any cigar worth

» buying is worth buying 2 boxes or a cab at a time.

I would love to, but gotta keep the peace at home.

I just dropped a lotta coin on a new Harley.

A man's gotta set priorities.;-)

[Smokiethebear]

I was pleasently suprised by an '05 RASS this past weekend. Rich and full in body, it sparked my interest in a box as a part of my next order.

[greenpimp]

Nice review. All of mine are '02 or older, haven't tried any recent production. Hafta rectify that apparently....

[Smokin Bulldog]

Recent production

Purchased in a group buy

I just took the time to spark one of these on the front porch while I was watching the thunderstorm role past the house. I was wowed by this cigar. It had a wonderful sweet prelight aroma. Burn was perfect the draw, however, was a little easy. But that did not take away from the cigar. Incredible amounts of smoke were produced. I certainly picked up hints of sweet spice and creamy coffee. towards the end of the cigar I was glad I had eaten before smoking. But to sum it up in one word, "WOW".

On a side note I did discover that cigars and fruit tea DO NOT go together.:-D

[grateful1]

I had my first RASS a couple of weeks ago. The next day I traded for some...I'm hooked!

Nice review!

[jadawin]

I also have a box of these from oct 05 and they are smoking really nicely. I definately got some of the same flavors you guys mentioned while smoking these. Construction is great, and i think ive only had a problem with maybe 1 cigar outta the whole box. I was surprised how well these smoked being this young.