Te Amo The Original San Andres Robusto Edited

Te Amo The Original San Andres Robusto is a San Andres Mexican puro covered in a San Andres Habano seed wrapper. The white, green and gold band takes up half the cigar. It’s not a cigar band. It’s a billboard boasting it as “the original San Andres Valley cigar.” A little research indicates that Te Amo was at one time a popular Mexican brand and is still made in Mexico.

The flavors are simply unidentifiable wood (oak?,,,plywood?…who knows?), earth, mild pepper, unsalted almonds, leather and a mineral note hiding in the Habano leaves. The flavors are minimal. The cigar is boring, dry and flat. The retrohale is earthy and peppery. It’s medium-bodied and medium strength cigar that kicks up in strength during the final third. Too bad the flavors couldn’t follow its lead.

Construction was decent, but it also had its flaws – smoke output adequate, burn line jagged with touchups needed. The cigar needed a full relight at one point. Now it did have a good open draw that saved it a point from the scoring table.

I got precious little to nothing out of the Te Amo San Andres. Had to put it down halfway through final third. Took it out back and had it put down mercifully. I couldn’t smoke it anymore. San Andres wrapper cigars have been generally spot-on for my palate so I am disappointed to learn that a cigar featuring nothing but San Andres could be so boring. Maybe we file this under the “too much of a good thing” file. My take is that a San Andres wrapper works if the rest of the tobacco compliments it in the blend.

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