Man this is great stuff. Nothing else to report. Just wow. If you like Va/Pers and find some in the secondary market. Pick it up.
Rimboche A.B.
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I just popped my one and only tin of this a few days ago! Much thanks to hoosierpipeguy. And yes, I’m enjoying the heck out of it!
Haha. I thought this was a special pint of ice cream but this is way better. Enjoy!
One of my favourites. I managed to buy about 8 oz of it in bulk right before it got discontinued. Everybody was lamenting Picayune at the time. It was all a crying shame. I only have a couple of ounces of that one. But AB is my top blend from D&R and I was really sad to see it go, though it was never mentioned much. Enjoy it!
D&R under Mr. Ryan was a unique blending house.
Rimboche A.B. really has a unique flavored unlike anything else I've had. My only gripe is that, for me, it can bite if I do not pay attention.
Rimboche A.B. really has a unique flavored unlike anything else I've had. My only gripe is that, for me, it can bite if I do not pay attention.
This is a good blend. There's a very slight touch of Latakia in it. It sucks that these Rimboché blends appear to have been discontinued. I'll have to ration my poundage of them.
Great blend! I think I heard or read that it is one of Mark Ryan’s favorites.
All the Rimboche's are great, and the unique "Periqued Dark-fired" with the touch of Latakia make the AB an interesting blend.
If I had the choice, the D&R blends I have/love would never change with aging. However I've recently smoked some that I've had jarred for a while (both with/without added moisture) and find that the bright leaf Mark Ryan used has aged quite nicely so far.
If I had the choice, the D&R blends I have/love would never change with aging. However I've recently smoked some that I've had jarred for a while (both with/without added moisture) and find that the bright leaf Mark Ryan used has aged quite nicely so far.
The D&R blends used quality tobaccos, and while the blends weren't complex, they were excellent, well thought out smokes.
Very true. I'm glad I heavily stocked up on a number of those blends when I did. There's a couple I didn't do that on, but A.B. and A.P. Rimboche, VIP, and the Raccoon series (which was Mark's top of the line blends IMHO) are among what I did cellar. Same for Three Sails (my favorite walking smoke), the Penhookers and Windsail.
I was always interested in the raccoons but D&R closing caught me by surprised and all the raccoons fled from the floodlight.
If only things had been different.
If only things had been different.
I was gifted a tin of this last year from a gracious forum lifer and am awaiting a special occasion to crack it , didn't know much about it, glad to see it celebrated as it adds to my excitement. Cheers Gents
I don't know about all of the blends but some were originally "rolling tobacco". I smoked Rimboché S.J. in cigarettes at one time.
I just checked my cellar, I’ve got 6.5 lbs of Rimbouche A.B. stashed from 2018…
I smoked through a 5 lb bag of Rimbouche A.P. from 2018 to 2021.
Maybe I’ll bust out a bag of A.B. soon.
I smoked through a 5 lb bag of Rimbouche A.P. from 2018 to 2021.
Maybe I’ll bust out a bag of A.B. soon.