Pre-light Experience

Seth: The Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years is average in appearances. The veins present are small to medium in size, and the wrapper has a Natural to light Colorado coloring. It has an antique brown finish. It is fairly smooth in texture, firm in hand, and gives off aromas of earth, tobacco and wood.
John: The Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years features a Colorado-colored wrapper. The wrapper is very smooth in appearance, and the cigar is tidy overall. I weighed the cigar at 16.7 grams and measured the humidity at 63.4% using the HumidiMeter Pro. Aromas from the wrapper included hay, barnyard and earth, while the foot offered musty wood and hay.
Jiunn: The Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years has a uniform and velvety smooth Colorado wrapper. Veins are well pressed, seams tight, bunch and roll even and the head is well wrapped and capped. Pre-light aromas give hay, barnyard and black pepper spice.

Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years

First Third

Seth: The cigar begins by delivering some leather, dry earth, damp tobacco, wood and baking spice notes. There are some coffee qualities, along with some herbal qualities, and it is medium in strength and body.
John: The first third opens with a medley of chocolate, creamy wood, tobacco and a vegetal note through the center of the profile. Mild to light-strength baking spices define the post draw. A few puffs in, bread joins the profile through the retrohale while earth moves into the post draw. As the first third continues to develop, mildly bitter hay joins the finish, adding a slight dryness without overwhelming the profile.
Jiunn: While I appreciate and enjoy the softer notes of creamy and buttery brioche bread, there’s a strong presence of tinny minerals that I’m not fond of. Retrohaling highlights even more of the minerals. The finish is short with a silky and oily mouthful of bread and cedar. Strength and body is medium.

Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years

Second Third

Seth: The second third is in line with the first. Flavor profile does not change, but I am getting some more mineral and herbal spice notes. Like before, medium in strength and body.
John: The second third begins with creamy wood and bread leading the profile, while a vegetal note continues to define the center. Mildly dry, musty wood makes up the finish as the earth has largely faded away. As the cigar progresses, the retrohale settles into a comfortable combination of creamy wood, sweet tobacco and vegetal notes, with wood carrying the finish. Through the bottom half of the second third, a growing bitterness joins the wood, gradually reducing the balance established earlier.
Jiunn: The second third stays on the same track. The tinny minerals is still too dominant in the profile for me to enjoy the softer tones of the cigar. I am really enjoying the salivating finish, still providing that great silky oily vibe. A big plus especially on this insane 90+ degree day. Strength and body is still medium.

Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years

Final Third

Seth: The final third is in line with the second, but the mineral notes increase even further.
John: The final third opens with sweet tobacco and tannic wood leading the profile, while dry wood defines the finish. By the halfway point of the final third, the bitterness on the finish has increased to medium strength, becoming the most noticeable change in the profile while the core flavors remain largely unchanged.
Jiunn: Final third shows even more tinny minerals, which gives a much bigger overcast to the other softer flavors that I enjoy. Strength and body remains medium.

Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years

Burn

Seth: The cigar has a decent burn throughout the smoke.
John: The burn remained straight through both the first and second thirds. Some minor unevenness developed during the final third but never required any intervention.
Jiunn: Burn performance had a couple issues. Due to uneven burn, there were a couple quick touch-ups required.

Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years

Draw

Seth: The draw is great from beginning to end.
John: The draw measured 30 inches of water on the Cigar Medics draw tester. Subjectively, it sat squarely within the ideal range between open and resistant.
Jiunn: Draw was great, giving the ideal air flow and resistance.

Overall

Seth: The Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years is an average cigar. The flavor profile is one-dimensional throughout the smoking experience and gets to be a little lacking and mineral heavy in the final third. This is a blend I would smoke in a smaller offering, but not something I would seek out in the future.
John: Blind Cigar #1569 opens with a profile that offers good balance and a respectable amount of complexity. The combination of chocolate, creamy wood, tobacco, bread and subtle vegetal notes creates an engaging first third that never feels dominated by any one component. The chocolate is particularly enjoyable, while the bread and creamy wood contribute a pleasant softness to the overall profile. The second third maintains much of that character to start, although the profile begins to simplify. The earth largely fades away, allowing the creamy wood and sweet tobacco to remain the primary contributors. The vegetal note continues to distinguish the cigar from more traditional wood-and-spice profiles, but the gradual introduction of bitterness begins to chip away at the balance established during the opening third. The final third continues along the same trajectory. Sweet tobacco remains present, but increasingly dry, tannic wood and a growing bitterness become the defining characteristics of the finish. While the cigar never becomes harsh, it also stops evolving, resulting in a final third that feels considerably less interesting than the opening stages. From a construction standpoint, the cigar performs exceptionally well. The burn requires no intervention despite minor unevenness late in the review, and the draw sits squarely within the ideal range throughout the smoking experience. In the end, the Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years delivers a well-balanced and enjoyable first third supported by excellent construction. While the profile gradually becomes drier and more bitter as the cigar progresses, it never falls apart or becomes unpleasant. The lack of meaningful evolution and the increasingly wood-driven finish ultimately keep the cigar in average territory, but it remains an enjoyable and competently constructed smoking experience. Total smoking time was 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Jiunn: I’ll probably get this wrong as usual but I’m thinking this is a heavy handed DR blend being so full of minerals. Well even if it isn’t, the dominant minerality was what ruined the profile for me, as it overshadowed some very favorable softer flavors. The Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years looks great but I can’t get behind this blend.

Seth Geise

SCORE

4.95

Cost/Point

$2.73

Scoring System

John McTavish

SCORE

6.10

Cost/Point

$2.21

Scoring System

Jiunn Liu

SCORE

5.55

Cost/Point

$2.43

Scoring System

Team Cigar Review: Ferio Tego Metropolitan 30 Years