Ramon Allones

AJ Fernández reimagined Ramón Allones as a Nicaraguan puro that wears a heavy, dark wrapper and leans into the spice‑and‑coffee lane familiar from his house blends. The line is offered in four core vitolas and each stick is shipped with a cedar sleeve, a small but effective touch that lifts the cedar on the cold draw. The blend pairs a Nicaraguan Medio‑Tiempo wrapper with Nicaraguan binder and fillers—tasting notes identify a Corojo '99 binder and fillers that include Corojo '99 from Jalapa, Criollo '98 from Condega, Pueblo Nuevo and hybrid Estelí leaves—yielding a fuller‑bodied profile. Strength lands medium‑to‑full; smoke texture is dense and chewy, arriving with dark‑roast coffee and cocoa up front, cedar and earth in support, and a black‑pepper finish that can press toward medium‑full in the final third. Construction and burn are routinely praised, while early draws on some samples can run a touch snug. The cigar reads like AJF’s modern Nicaraguan house style—a clear coffee/cocoa backbone and cedar‑forward architecture—dressed in Ramón Allones’ ornate bands and dark‑leaf aesthetic.