Review: Manik Blanco Tequila
Manik Blanco Tequila is named after the Mayan God of prosperity and desire. It is made with 100% blue agave grown on a family estate in the Lowlands. After harvesting the agave is slow roasted and the juice is fermented in stainless steel vats. Manik is triple distilled and bottled at Tequila Selecto de Amatitan just outside or Guadalajara Mexico. This is the same distillery that crafts the Blue Nectar, Gran Tulum, and Metl tequila brands. Read more 
Review: Campeon Silver Tequila
Campeon Silver Tequila recently changed their bottle design, but not their recipe. Campeon translates in English to Champion. Their tequila is made from 100% blue agave grown in the high altitudes of the Eastern Highlands. After harvesting, the agave is slow cooked in traditional brick ovens for 18 hours. After resting, the agave is steam cooked for another 12 hours. The juice is fermented with a proprietary yeast and double distilled in small batches in a copper pot still. Only the heart is kept with the heads and tails of each batch discarded. Campeon is distilled to 80 proof and not blended with water. This retains the full agave flavor. Read more
Review: El Mayor Blanco Tequila
El Mayor Blanco Tequila was introduced in 2005. It is made from 100% blue agave grown on the Gonzalez family estate. The Gonzalez family has been growing and distilling tequila for four generations. El Mayor is crafted by Rodolfo Gonzalez with hand selected and harvested agave grown for at least 7 years. The agave is chopped and slow cooked for 24 hours using stainless steel autoclaves. The steamed agaves are pressed by a millstone to extract the juice that is fermented with a proprietary yeast in stainless steel vats. A double distillation in copper lined pot stills follows. Each bottle is rinsed with tequila before filling in a family owned bottling facility. By this point every bottle has endured over one hundred individual quality checks. El Mayor translates in English to The Greatest. Lets see how accurate their name is. Read more
Review: Siembra Azul Blanco Tequila
Siembra Azul Blanco Tequila was launched by brand founder David Suro Pinera in 2005. It is made from 100% Blue agave grown pesticide free on the Vivanos family estate. The Vivanos have grown agave on this estate since the early 19th century. In 1990 they built an artisanal distillery. Siembra Azul Blanco tequila is made with agave that has been slow cooked in brick ovens for 50 hours. After the juice is extracted it is fermented with Prisse de Mouse yeast in stainless steel tanks while music from Mozart is played to stimulate and soothe the fermentation. The tequila is then small batch distilled in an Alembic copper pot still followed by a second distillation in a custom copper and stainless steel alembic still. The tequila is then bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Riazul Silver Tequila
Riazul Silver Tequila was introduced in 2008. The Riazul name is a combination of two Spanish words Rio and Azul. The English translation is River and Blue. Riazul’s founder Inaki Orozco inherited 620 acres of land in the Highlands of Jalisco. This land was part of 10,000 acres that had been granted to Maria Higinia Gomez who served as a high counselor to the Mexican rebel leaders during the Mexican War of Independence. Maria gave most of this land to revolutionaries who fought for Mexican freedom but kept 620 acres. This land was passed down from generation to generation and remained untouched until Inaki Orozco planted the first 100 agave shoots on the land. 100 soon grew to 175,000 and his initial plan of just growing agave for other tequila farmers, turned into a plan to create his own tequila brand. Riazul Silver is double distilled through both a copper pot still and a column still. The tequila is filtered and oxygenated before bottling. Read more
Review: Sol Azul Silver Tequila
Sol Azul Silver Tequila was released in 2006. It is named for, and the hand crafted decanter feature, the blue sun needed to grow the 100% Weber Blue agave Sol Azul tequila is made from. Destiladora Arandas where Sol Azul is crafted was build by Fernando Pacheco. His son and daughter now run the distillery. Read more
Review: Sauza 901 Silver Tequila
Sauza 901 Silver Tequila was released January 2014 when Justin Timberlake joined forces with Beam to relaunch his 901 tequila. The tequila was moved from Distillery NOM 1173, also home to Grand Mayan, Amate, and El Capo tequila, to NOM 1102 where Sauza creates their entire tequila line. 901 had been crafted using agave grown in the highlands. While no information is provided, the Sauza line of tequila is made with agave grown in the lowlands. Like its predecessor, Sauza 901 Silver Tequila is triple distilled. The original 901 tequila was priced and positioned as a premium tequila. I paid $40 for my bottle. Sauza 901 Silver is priced as a midrange tequila. I picked up this bottle for $22.99. I really enjoyed the original 901. Lets see how Sauza 901 compares. Read more
Review: 901 Silver Tequila
901 Silver Tequila was introduced by Justin Timberlake May 2009. 901 partnered with Beam and their Sauza tequila line January 2014, and has moved production to their distillery. This review is of the original 901 Silver, which is no longer in production. My review of Sauza 901 Silver tequila will follow. While I paid $40 dollars for this tequila, I purchased a bottle of Sauza 901 Silver tequila for 22.99. 901 is named for the area code in Memphis Tennessee, Justin’s hometown. 901 is also the time of day when evening ends, but the night is just beginning. 901 Silver is made in small batches with 100% blue agave. After the agave is slow cooked in stainless steel ovens the juice is extracted and fermented with a proprietary yeast for 72 hours. After being triple distilled, the tequila is filtered and then bottled. Read more
Review: El Gran Jubileo Blanco Tequila
El Gran Jubileo Blanco Tequila is crafted at a small family owned distillery that has been producing El Gran since 1999. It was introduced in the US in 2008. El Gran Jubileo was created to celebrate the year 2000. After hand selecting the finest estate grown 100% blue agave, the agave hearts are slow roasted with the juice extracted, fermented, and then triple distilled. Read more
Review: AsomBroso El Platino Silver Tequila
AsomBroso El Platino Silver tequila is crafted with 100% blue agave. The agave is harvested by hand and then slow roasted. After the agave juice is extracted and fermented the spirit is distilled and filtered multiple times. Once completed the tequila is bottled in hand blown bottles from Murano Italy. The bottles design is patented after an 1800th century decanter found in an English castle. Read more