Review: E Cuarenta Tequila Blanco
E Cuarenta is Spanish for E 40. E Cuarenta Tequila was launched February 2018 by American Rapper, founding member of The Click and platinum recording artist E-40. E-40’s birth name is Earl Stevens and he put that name on his own line of wine prior to adding tequila to a portfolio that at one time also included a Fatburger in Pleasant Hill California. E-40 spent several years visiting several distilleries and sampling dozens of tequilas before selecting Destiladora Del Valle De Tequila to produce his tequila. Destiladora Del Valle De Tequila, AKA Casa Maestri, is the most prolific distillery in Mexico, producing tequila for 212 different tequila brands. E Cuarenta Tequila Blanco is made from a blend of agave grown in both the highland and lowland regions of Jalisco. The agave is slow cooked in stone ovens for 48-60 hours and is fermented in open air steel tanks before it is double distilled. The aroma leads with cooked agave. Additional time brings out cooked pasta, anise, lemon, black pepper and a hint of mint. The sweet citrus and cooked agave entry builds to a lemon, peanut, and herbal agave peak. It fades with vanilla, lemon and mint, and finishes warm, peppery and semi dry with black pepper, anise, saline, and lemon peel.
NOM: 1438
40% Agave
Agave Region: Lowland and Highland
Score: 86
Award: Bronze Medal