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Rattray's: Red Rapparee 500g Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-055-0032

Exhilarating and elusive, quaint and seductive. Prepared from choice Red Virginias, dusted with Latakia, and heavily flavored with Orientals, giving it a red tinge. It burns in the pipe with the spontaneity of a fine cigar.
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  • Components: Virginia, Latakia, Orientals, Black Cavendish
  • Family: English
  • Cut: Ribbon
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4.6
41 reviews
Above average english
January 18, 2025
By: teejski
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 50g
An above average english blend. Probably one of the better Rattray’s english offerings. Will buy more tins and stick in the cellar. Can’t go wrong!
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Add it to your cellar now!
March 02, 2025
By: William S.
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 50g
I will be keeping this English stocked from here on out. Love this blend.
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Unique Blend
January 16, 2025
By: UncleDave
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 100g
One of the finest English blends on the market today. I lean a bit more toward classifying RR as a Balkan rather than just an English blend due to the strong influence of the Oriental element (non-Latakia). But at the same time the Latakia presence is a bit more than you might find in any number of blends classified as a Balkan. I'm not sure that a classification really matters--not everything fits in a pigeon hole. I've been smoking Red Rapparee (RR) since the 70s--that's when it was still produced in Perth, Scotland. The flavor is faithful to my memory of the original with the exception of a bit more sweetness. Balkan Orientals on top, Virginias in support as the base, a pretty fair amount of Latakia and a bit of Black Cavendish to add sweetness and perhaps a little more depth. That's basically how my palate interprets this blend. Deserves 3-4 out of 10 for strength and 6 out of 10 for flavor. I can be a little old-fashioned in my views; I am always torn by the inclusion of Black Cavendish in what should be a quality blend. I often find that Black Cavendish "cheapens" a blend--it functions more as a filler. But sometimes its inclusion does help to expand the blend's flavor profile. With RR I consider the inclusion of Black Cavendish to be an enhancement offering a slight improvement over the original. The tobaccos meld together in a wonderful manner resulting in great flavor. It's certainly possible to spend more, but I think it's difficult to find better. Even though prices have increased, Rattray's blends continue to be worth the price....Read More
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My most suggested Rattrays blend
December 27, 2024
By: Ericson R.
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 100g
I love this blend. When anyone asks me to suggest something, this is what I usually suggest. It doesnt have any bite to it and tastes great.
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Pleasant
August 04, 2024
By: Mark S.
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 50g
The taste is peculiar, hints of spiciness, leather, while also being slightly sweet and musky, and perfumey and smokey on the exhale. The tin note is odd as it is smokey and smells of barbeque sauce to me. It's as if I walked into a Texas BBQ restaurant, given the smokiness. I personally don't enjoy the tin note, but I feel a selected few would. What I do enjoy though is the flavor I described above. I personally would enjoy this fine tobacco on a cold autumn or winter day, so I will cellar it and come back to it then....Read More
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Let it Age!
April 23, 2024
By: Jim k.
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 500g
I clearly am showing my age when I can say this is my 48th year smoking this blend. Though the blend is good when smoked new it is not fantastic. However, I did last year smoke two tins that had reached their 25th year and it was the best smoking experience of my life. The ageing process of having the Black Cavedish with the Orientals next to the Red Virginia in a non aerobic fermentation created a extremely complex and enjoyable smoke of smokey dark fruit flavors and spice. Buy this to cellar....Read More
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Very Rattray's Very Good
April 05, 2024
By: Pretentious Pedantry
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 100g
There's always something different about Rattray's blends that you just don't get in anything that comes from the group that makes all the marques for C&D/G.L.Pease/Drucquer & Sons/etc. It's very premium. The first thing I noticed after the very intriguing bag note is that Red Rapparee has a great mouthfeel. I knew I was in for a treat right away. It has the perfect moisture right out of the tin/bag, it's full of body, yet still medium in strength. The flavors are full and wide and round, but not heavy. They don't slather the palate in tar and nicotine. I'm not usually a huge fan of cavendish in my English/Balkans, either because the blender used too much or used cheap, rough leaf, but cavendish is absolutely a winner in Red Rapparee. It adds the perfect texture, body, mouthfeel. I was so pleased from the first light. The Virginias are dark and mature, a little sweet. The latakia is not overpowering, just a little smoky. These all serve as a nice field for the orientals to play on. Floral, earthy, buttery, a little spicy, maybe a bit incense-y, complex but not overly so, not in a distracting way. It's just so good, so refreshingly different, so unlike anything that the popular production companies are doing. The stuff I smoked today was produced in August of 2021, so it's almost three years old, and it's been stored in its factory-original 500g bag in a walk-in humidor. I wouldn't have thought that was ideal, leaving it in the plastic rather than jarring it, but hey, it's really good....Read More
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Perfect for the first smoke of the morning!
October 18, 2023
By: Tarheel Piper
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 100g
RRR beats them all for a morning cup of joe and a pipe. I was stuck on EMP, and that’s an excellent smoke, but for me Red Raps got that little extra something. I highly recommend.
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Simply the best
November 09, 2023
By: Scott C.
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 50g
Better than all the rest. This is easily a dependable delicious and reliable oriental forward english/scottish blend. The inclusion of cavendish rounds out the sharpness of oriental spice and adds a mouthfeel and sweetness to the latakia. Of course the virginia lends its backbone to hold it all together. A musty, spicy, enjoyable blend. One of my top favourites....Read More
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Great medium English blend
September 12, 2023
By: William B.
Product: Rattray's Red Rapparee 100g
I love the interplay of Latakia and the other Orientals in this blend. The ribbon cut comes at the perfect moisture level and it burns really well.
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