El Tequileno is a genuinely unusual blanco tequila, begging the question of whether '100% agave' is always a necessity for quality.
In the last few decades, the typical American spirits consumer has notably evolved their relationship with tequila. Go back 20 years, and agave spirits had perhaps the least refined reputation of all the major liquor categories in the U.S., constantly depicted as the fuel for raucous partying, vice, blackouts or simply as the prime component for the omnipresent margarita.
If you’re unaware, mixto tequila is the broad term referring to tequila in which the fermentables are derived from anything less than 100% agave pinas. That can meanfermentable, but it commonly refers to cheap sugars used to thin out the resulting product in order to make inexpensive, bottom shelf tequilas suitable for mixed drinks.
On the nose, the first thing that stands out is cooked agave; this feels quite roasty and sweet indeed, with sticky herbal notes leading the way. There’s also significant pepperiness here, and traces of roasted nuts, clove and particularly butterscotch. The latter isn’t exactly what you expect to find when nosing a blanco tequila for the first time, but I feel like the unrefined sugars are expressing themselves here through trace elements that are not fermented out.
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