Ramon Allones Specially Selected EPM NOV 18 (47+RW)

[Akela3rd]

 

The first couple I'd had out of this box recently were both absolutely stellar so I went into this with high hopes, and was not disappointed.

Beautiful oily wrapper, nicely constructed and well packed to the point of feeling slightly too well packed. Fruity on the cold draw.

The draw was firm but not unpleasantly so and on lighting the smoke output was fine. Lemon cake was my first impression and this soon developed into a more stone fruit sort of vibe. A little zing was there but overall a rounded dark fruit feel, like a damson jelly with grated lemon over it.

This general rich fruit combination dominated the first third of the cigar and then into the second third a slight coffee note appeared. The cigar was smoking slowly with the firm draw and I didn't have a problem with that at all. A lighter draw would have made it overpowering. It tasted strong and had a real depth to it - black coffee and expensive 90% dark chocolate under the rich fruit.

Into the final third I massaged the wrapper a little and the draw opened out and a sweet licorice started to make an appearance. The way the flavours swam around over the time this took to smoke was quite mesmerising - a basic theme of dark fruit and dark coffee but constantly changing in emphasis and hints of lemon oil coming and going.

A beautiful cigar and I'm already looking forward to getting through these sooner rather than later. It might just be that giving these the time for the different aspects to meld together could be the undoing of an excellent and interesting box. Surprisingly strong for an RA and beautifully rich.

8.5/10 arbitrarily.

 

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