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The RAG Club Member Events – Cigars on the terrace
March 20 @ 18:30 - 20:00
Thursday 20th March at 18.30 | Ribbon Bar & Terrace | £30.00
The old and the new often complement each other. With this in mind, the 2025 Army & Navy Club cigar season begins in March with a cigar of longstanding heritage and something fresh to accompany this.
We thank Hunters & Frankau for their ongoing counsel – the Ramon Allones No. 3, from one of Cuba’s oldest houses, is actually a recent offering from such an established purveyor, 5 5/8” in length with a ring gauge of 52 so a size akin to the Montecristo Edmundo. The additional 3mm in length is known colloquially in the Cuban cigar factories as a Nobleza. In all, look forward to a blend of filler and binder tobaccos harvested exclusively from the Vuelta Abajo zone of Pinar del Rio, renowned for yielding intense and complex taste.
We will pair this Cuban cigar with something that north of the border is almost an oxymoron; namely English whisky. The House of Fielden was established in 2017, with a distillery in Oxford and is now based in Yorkshire where regenerative farming is producing grain as nature intended – a spirit that is clean as well as rich in complexities. The sense of age that you will enjoy may well be a surprise, including to Scots.…