Te-Amo Vintage 99

[botl88]

Wrapper: not veiny at all, fairly solid though and cracked. It was a medium-dark shade, and full body.

Filler: again, rather harsh, not a hard draw, but the ease wasn't all there either.

Smoke: the smoke was good for the first 1/3, but dropped to an almost sour taste about 1/2 way. However the actual smoke was really smooth.

Overall, I'll give the Te-Amo's a pretty good review, even though it may not seem like it. It was a decent cigar, and I was celebrating the end of my first semester mid-terms today...so I might have been a bit more critical. Have a try sometime.

 

[SammyP]

I just had my first one this afternoon, but mine was a '98.

The vitola was sweet.....it was a 5.5" X 54 figurado. Almost identical to a Best Seller, but longer, and box pressed toward the foot, becoming round at the head. Very well made.

It lit and burned very well. The ash was grey-black, and a little flakey.

I wanted so bad to like this thing, but man it tasted bad. Up front it was gutsy and spicy, but it was harsh on the tongue. The aroma was a little rank, and I kept getting whiffs of something that reminded me of wet garbage.

Makes me wish the people who made this thing would move to more fertile cigar making ground, because if this is the best that Mexico has to offer, then they can keep it.

 

[tigger]

Te Amo's have a musty flavor and aroma to them that I've never liked.

Like the rest of this hobsession, it's all subjective though. Teo Amo's are, or at least were at one time, one of the best-selling cigars in the country. So lotsa people do like them...

 

[Ginseng]

There was a great article in Cigar Magazine on Mexican cigars. Summer 2005 I think the issue was.

Wilkey

 

[ThankYouForNotSmoking]

Te Amo's have a musty flavor and aroma to them that I've never liked.

Like the rest of this hobsession, it's all subjective though. Teo Amo's are, or at least were at one time, one of the best-selling cigars in the country. So lotsa people do like them...

I couldn't smoke the one I grabbed, I thought it might have just been sick or somehow tainted - but musty is exactly how i would put it.