Tequila Tasting

The traditional way to drink tequila has always been with the "caballito" a typical shot glass that is tall and slim. Often people accompany the tequila caballito with a slice of lemon and some salt. It is advisable to drink it slowly in sips and then test the slice of lemon with salt.

The añejo tequilas do not need lemon and salt, because the tequila is extremely fine and complex that it would mess up the initial and after taste, hence is best drink alone.

Recommendations to Taste and Enjoy 100% Agave Tequila

Tequila is a rich, fine, and complex liquor with great aromas and it should be drank as such. Experts claim that they can identify up to 50 different scents in tequila because they enjoy it and utilize every possible sense such as what they see, smell and breathe, feel and taste in tequila.

Fine topnotch tequila should be sipped slowly and gently. Tequila experts and enthusiasts recommend serving tequila in a proper glass according to the type of tequila rather than using the typical caballito, these proper glasses should a riedel or snifter for añejos and extra añejos straight up as if you were drinking bourbon or cognac.

How to experience tequila tasting....

• Best at room temperature
• Let breath the bottle for 5 minutes before pouring

Lift the glass up to light and see its color, then tilt the cup and watch and enjoy the color that are formed with the reposado and añejos from a yellowish in the center to a dark amber by the edges of the glass, as for the whites or blancos is white in the center and a bit silvery at the edges of the glass.

Swirl the glass to check out the tequila "legs or tears." Tequila's legs are just like good wine legs, they should be long-lasting and continuous, not breaking abruptly, just smooth like a woman's beautiful long legs.

Now the steps to tasting Tequila...almost as if you were tasting wine...

1. Swirl
2. Sniff
3. Sip

Now, after swallowing put the cup below your nose and inhale deeply, try to identify the predominant aroma, the agave, feel the smoothness, identify the wood, feel the flavor, and describe it, Is it fruity? Woody, sweet, sour, bitter? Does it have species? Is it oily? And take another sip... and enjoy....

Remember that tequila is 100% Pure Agave, there is no coloring or added artificial flavors, learn to appreciate the differences.

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