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Patron XO Cafe Dark Cocoa Review
Patron XO Cafe Dark Coca is deliciously dangerous, managing to deliver a chocolate coffee liqueur experience that also preserves the base spirit.
Archive for category: Tequila
Peligroso Anejo Tequila Review
Peligroso Anejo Tequila comes in a cool black bottle, but you pay a premium for looks over taste. It's a nice combination of oak, pepper and carmel flavors, but not at the right price.
Don Julio Tequila Review
In many ways it’s a heavy burden for a master distiller to work on a legendary spirit line. That task is even harder when that line is named after a real person who is still alive and kicking. Enrique de Colsa, master distiller for Don Julio tequila, has the enviable and unenviable task of maintaining one of Mexico’s most notable [...]
Corrido Tequila Review
The tequila market is pretty crowded, which tends to push distillers to try new things to help make their product unique and stand out from the pack. Corrido Tequila does this by taking a page out of both wine and bourbon’s playbook to create a unique line of tequilas with distinct and exceptional taste. Corrido uses bourbon barrels to age [...]
Patrón Goes Green
In this era of “Green is In” and corporations like Walmart ‘greenwashing’, you’d expect one of the biggest players in the tequila space to trumpet their environmental efforts on every bottle, package and press release. But Patrón is actually quite understated when it comes to their landmark environmental efforts. In an industry where terms like ‘fair trade’ and ‘environmentally conscious’ aren’t thrown around [...]
Asombroso Tequila Review
It’s amazing how much growth we’re seeing in the tequila market, with expanded offerings outside the traditional Blanco, Reposado and Anejo (read our exploration of tequila and mezcal article for more information). We’re expecting to see a number of new products hit the market which take a different approach to tequila. For Asombroso, the La Rosa Reposado Tequila is a [...]
Entourage’s Tequila Avion is Real and We Have a Review
In what may be the best product tie-in since the Wonka Bar and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Tequila Avion has transcended beyond product placement into a major plot line in the Seventh Season of HBO’s Entourage. The show’s back story for Tequila Avion is fiction (Turtle isn’t their brand rep and Marc Cuban isn’t on the hunt to buy the company) [...]
Top 5 Tequila and Mezcal for Cinco de Mayo
We had such great feedback for our Top 10 Irish Whiskeys for St. Patrick’s Day piece that we decided to do something similar for Cinco de Mayo. After tasting over 20 different tequilas and mezcals, we’ve come up with our Top 5 Tequilas and Mezcals for Cinco de Mayo. Since this is our first year doing the list, there are [...]
An Exploration of Tequila and Mezcal
After getting some really positive feedback on our piece exploring the world of Cognac, I thought I’d do something similar with Tequila and Mezcal. Like cognac, tequila refers to a spirit which must be distilled in a very specific part of the world. Originally called mezcal de tequila, this spirit is only tequila if it’s distilled in the Mexican state of Jalisco and [...]
Yeyo Ultra Premium Silver Tequila
After a bender trip in Mexico after high school I swore off drinking any and all tequila. In the late 80′s and early 90′s that probably wasn’t a bad thing to do (the big selling point of many tequilas was that they had a worm in the bottle). Flash forward many years and a friend of mine urged me to try a [...]
