From TequilaGringo: The nose on this blanco was earthy/clove-y, slightly smokey.  Usually it's the lowland tequilas that have more earthy tones, so this surprised us a bit.  On taste, we found it to posses a true agave flavor, with perhaps a hint of cucumber (but oh so slight).  We found it to have a really full bodied, flavorful taste - particularly for a blanco.  Yet it's also a mild tequila, with low heat, and it's exceptionally smooth.  The mouthfeel was velvety.  8 stars.  

Tasted 10/27/2009.  NOM 1526 Read more »

From TequilaGringo: When Fernando Hernandez of Real de Mexico sent us his blanco and his repo, we were happy.  (It's fair to say we get happy with each and every bottle that comes in the mail, wouldn't you?) But maybe this was a little different because Fernando had been very nice and a pleasure to work with, and we hoped his tequila would be a good one.  So, we poured it into our Reidel tequila glasses and gave it a whiff.  Light sweet agave and a bit of pepper on nose. Good start on a blanco.  Medium heat. OK.  The flavor?  You know, it was pretty simple, but in a good way.  Sometimes when there's little complexity but you get a good simple agave, that's what you want. The length of the finish was standard. Read more »

 From TequilaGringo: One of the great things about tequila is that it's perfectly acceptable to get way out there with bottle designs.  There are modern ones. Read more »

From TequilaGringo: Luna Sueno's blanco offering arrived and it was apparent immediately that these guys know how to make a tequila look really tantalizing.  It comes in a sleek (dare I say, beautiful?) black box.  The bottle is hand blown, which gives it a very authentic feel, and hearkens back to old Mexico, we like that.  We're suckers for that.  Perhaps the most unique quality of Luna Sueno is the quality (we can be witty with our plays on words yes?).  Most tequilas are distilled twice.  We've seen a few triple distilled.  This is the first cuadruple destilado we've come across.  Each distillation removes impurities - two is usually enough but to strive for a fourth is to strive for absolute purity. Read more »

From Tequila Gringo: We loved the repo offering from Dos Lunas and so were excited to try out the blanco.  Their blanco is from the midlands, and they use 10 year old agaves (8 is a little more common, the extra age means bigger pinas and more time to pick up flavors from the soil or air depending on altitude).  The nose was a sweet agave and fruit.  Upon taste, more of the same.  A nice, smooth, simple blanco.  A soft, almost velvety mouth feel.  Overall, a solid offering. Our socks didn't fly off like they did with the repo- but that's an unfairly high bar.  7 stars, and an easy choice if you're looking at patron as the competitor.

From Tequila Gringo: Here's a great old school tequila.  Stone crushed, just how they used to do it.  Much more laborious than the way most tequilas are made today, but damn if the old way didn't produce a better tequila.  They take  8 yr old agave plants (8-10 is pretty typical) and cook for 33 hours.  Then it ferments for 3 and a half days in wood barrels.  From there, it goes into nice hand blown glass bottles with a pina looking top that's made from ground marble.  Old school looking bottle is perfectly fitting for this production process.  The nose is pretty remarkable for a blanco with some fruit and earth, and we found the taste to be very unique for a blanco as well.  It's a low-land tequila, which nat Read more »

From TequilaGringo: Great bottle.  What makes a great bottle you ask? It has guns molded into the back.  As if that's not enough, the cap is heavy, so you can smoothly spin it off with a flick of the thumb.  It pours very nicely.  (It also has markers on the back for each shot worth of booze, but I find them pretty useless.)  The nose of this tequila has a full bodied, sweet agave to it.  Taste follows with more sweet agave, and some very slight hints of black pepper and a hint of vanilla.  Medium/light heat.  Mouth feel is thin.  This is a delicious blanco, wonderfully complex with a finish that seemed to be just about the right length for us.

NOM 1123.  Tasted 08/01/2009

TequilaGringo: This tequila is from the highlands of Jalisco, which usually means a nice big flavor.  But it's not just from the highlands, it's actually from the highest fields there, 6,200 feet!  It's chemical-free and made by Carlos Munoz, the distiller master.  On the nose, we found a delicious light agave, and the taste followed through with more of the same.  A nice soft mouth feel.  Finish was medium heat and brief.  Aromatic comes to mind as we sip this.  A nice, solid tequila

TequilaGringo: Corzo shipped us one of their new 50ml mini-bottles for this one.  They're great little bottles, basically like carrying around a flask.  They look just like the beautiful, modern 750ml ones, simply smaller.  And what's inside is pretty great too.  We must say, we liked this blanco.  The nose was definitely agave, but maybe with a hint of sugar.  Taste held up nicely to the expectations set by the bottle design and nose.  Green pepper.  Agave.  Good level of complexity.  Mouth feel we thought was best described as "soft".  If you're looking for a blanco, we think you should check this one out.  Corzo is easier to find than many tequilas because of their great distributio

From TequilaGringo.com     Any tequila afficianado will tell you, for tequila to be Tequila, it has to be made in the Tequila region of Mexico.  In fact, that's actually written into the NAFTA agreement.  It's basically like the difference between Champagne and Sparkling Wine - to count it has to be from the right place.  This stuff is made from the agave plant, but it's made in the Temecula region of Southern California so it's an "Agave Spirit".  They actually had a fight over their original name, Temequila, which was deemed to be too similar to Tequila, and had to back off and call it JB Wagoner.  Read more »

From TequilaGringo.com     The nose on the tequila from this fantasticly designed bottle is very much agave.  On sipping it, we found the mouthfeel to be thin, and the finish to be hot but clean.  A solid tequila that you'll like, but may not be moved to fall in love with. Read more »

TequilaGringo.com Review:     Tequila Tierras is a new tequila to the market that won a Gold medal at the 2009 S.F. World Spirits Competition, so we were pretty excited when their samples arrived in the mail.  The blanco does not dissapoint.  The nose brought in a very fresh, clean scent with notes of pepper and citrus.  The mouth feel was silky, something we like in our tequilas.  But the taste is what earned this tequila a spot on our best blanco list.  It had the very real tequila flavor we prefer, and had a mixture of both citrus and vanilla blended in, not something you often run across.  The finish was a good length and easy with a very light heat. Read more »

TequilaGringo Review:   We really enjoyed this blanco.  It smelled of strong citrus, and the taste followed that up with an easy low heat, complext with citrus and maybe a little nut.  Long delicious finish that we really liked a lot.  Easily one of our favorite blanco's.

From Tequila Gringo:

Medium heat, light agave taste.  Pretty much here and gone.  That said, for the price, you could do a heck of a lot worse!

From Tequila Gringo:

Here's a unique blanco.  We've had mescals that tasted like this, but not blancos.  This one had a unique richness to it, and a very smokey taste with hints of pepper.  Usually you need more time in a barrel to pick up tastes like these.  If you like smokey tequilas, this is a blanco that'll surprise you and put a smile on your face.