Review: Luna Suena Blanco Tequila
Luna Suena Blanco Tequila translates in English to Moon Dream. The tequila is made with 100% Weber blue agave harvested by hand under the moonlit skies. The pinas are slow cooked for 3 days in traditional stone ovens and then crushed. The juice is fermented for three days and then quadruple distilled in an Alembic still. The tequila is then filtered for 24 hours and after a precision oxygenation period it is bottled at 80 proof in a hand blown bottle. Read more
Review: Karma Silver Tequila
Karma Silver Tequila was introduced in 2009. It is made with 100% Blue agave at a family owned and operated distillery using traditional methods that have been passed down for over 70 years. Once the agave pina’s have been hand selected they are slow cooked in special brick ovens. The extracted agave juice is fermented using natural ingredients and then small batch double distilled. Read more
Review: Tres Sietes Silver Tequila
Tres Sietes Silver Tequila was introduced in 2011 by Brady Bunte and Master Distiller Frank Gonzalez. Brady was the first winner of the Bisbee Million Dollar Fishing Tournament, and the owner of Los Cabos, a luxury vacation villa, and Cabo Chips, a tortilla chip company. Tres Sietes tequila is made with 100% blue agave. The distillery’s $2 million diffuser imported from Spain steam cooks the agave rather than the traditional method of baking the agave. This disturbs the agave fiber less, creating less methanol production, resulting in a cleaner fresher taste. Read more
Review: Olmeca Altos Plata Tequila
Olmeca Altos Plata Tequila was introduced in 2009. It is made with 100% Blue agave grown for 7-8 years. 60% of the agave is sourced from their estate. The agave is hand harvested with the bitter tasting cogollos removed before it is slow cooked in brick ovens. A 2-tonne volcanic millstone is used to crush the cooked pinas and extract the juice. A cultivated yeast is added to ferment the extracted juice before the tequila is double distilled in small copper pot stills. Read more
Review: Jose Cuervo Platino Reserva De La Familia
Jose Cuervo Platino Reserva De La Familia is not your fathers tequila. For years Cuervo Gold was often referred to as the good stuff. That was before 100% agave tequila was introduced in the US market. Platino De La Familia, as the name would suggest, was once only offered to close family and friends. It is handcrafted using the most flavorful 7-12 year old pina’s grown on the family estate, at the oldest active distillery in Latin America. A unique process they call Esencia de Agave, a meticulous method that brings out the full character of the agave is used to craft this tequila. Each bottle is numbered, dated, and sealed in wax. All by hand. Read more
Review: Casa Dragones Blanco Tequila
Casa Dragones Blanco Tequila was introduced May 2014 in the US. This is the follow up to their ultra, ultra premium Casa Dragones Jovan Tequila that was launched in 2008. It is small batch multi column distilled with 100% blue agave grown for 8-12 years on an estate 1200 meters above sea level, and pure natural spring water that travels from atop a volcano into a 70 meter deep natural underground aquifer. Each bottle is hand labeled, with the batch, bottle number, and date listed. Read more
Review: BooYa Silver Tequila
BooYa Silver Tequila was introduced in 2009. It is one of six tequilas made under the BooYa label. The others include Reposado, Anejo, Espresso, Silver Mint, and Acai Berry. BooYa Silver is made with 8-12 year old 100% Blue agave. The extracted agave pina’s weigh between 40 and 70 pounds. It takes an average of 15 pounds to make a quart of BooYa tequila. The agave is chopped before roasting in steam ovens. After cooking, the pina’s are torn apart to extract the juice. After 48 hours of fermentation the tequila is double distilled. Read more
Review: 3 Amigos Blanco Tequila
3 Amigos Blanco Tequila is made with 100% Weber Blue agave grown in the rich red soil of the Highlands on the Gonzalez family farm where they have grown 100% blue agave for 4 generations. Once harvested the agave pinas are cooked in small batches in a pressure cooker for 12 hours, and then crushed to release the sugars. The juice is then fermented in stainless steel tanks for 72 hours. It is then distilled for 2 hours separating the alcohol and impurities. The second distillation takes 5 hours and purifies the alcohol, followed by a filtering process. Read more
Review: Fortaleza Blanco Tequila
Fortaleza Blanco Tequila was launched by Don Guillermo in 2005. Five generations of tequila making starting with their first distillery in 1873. While the business was sold in 1976, the family kept the land and distillery. Don Guillermo started getting the old distillery up and running again in 1999. They start with 100% estate grown 8 year old blue agave. The agave is slow steam cooked for 36 hours in a very old stone oven. The agave then is cooled for 24 hours before it is stone crushed using a two ton volcanic stone pulled by an electric tractor. The agave juice is fermented for 4 days in an open air wooden tank and then double distilled in 100 year old copper pot stills. Read more
Review: Mejor Blanco Tequila
Mejor Blanco Tequila is an ultra premium tequila that is made with 100% blue agave, grown on the family’s single estate. This tequila is micro distilled with each bottle dated with the batch and bottle number. Master distiller Marco Cedan Nunez perfected his talents as a Master Distiller with Don Julio before joining and creating the Mejor product line of tequila. Mejor invests up to 40 days on additional proprietary filtering and processing steps after distillation including smoothing the tequila through a natural oxygen filtration process. Read more