Review: Tequila Carrera Blanco
Tequila Carrera is crafted by fifth generation Maestros Tequileros Mauricio and Eduardo Camarena at Fabrica de Tequila el Eden. The Camarena family settled in Arandas Jalisco in 1761. Since then the Camarena family have gone on to build several distilleries. Tequila Carrera is made from 100% Blue Weber Highland grown agave. The pinas are trimmed, stacked inside a brick oven, cooked with steam for 23 hours followed by 23 hours of rest. The juice is extracted in a five step station roller mill and fermented open air in stainless steel tanks for 72 hours. After a double distillation the tequila is bottled additive free. The aroma leads with cooked agave, citrus and black pepper. The sweet agave entry has a nice oily feel. Citrus arrives building to a citrus, vanilla, and sweet cooked agave peak. It fades with mineral and pepper and finishes with significant black pepper, bittersweet agave, lemon, and a hint of mint. Tequila Carrera Blanco is a well crafted robust tequila that is clearly more in the old school tequila camp, than the softer new school blanco tequilas made today.
NOM: 1465
Agave Region: Highlands
40% Alcohol
Score: 90
Award: Silver Medal