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Añejo Tequila Tasting

Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer. Today we’re doing our final Tequila tasting. This is the Añejo, it’s the most expensive. Let’s move this because that’s just driving me crazy. This is my Cabo Wabo Diablo. Cabo Wabo wasn’t able to be brought in so the Diablo represents Cabo Wabo. The Añejo is a sipping tequila. You can put it in a mixed drink if you want to. I just don’t know anybody that wants to put it into a cocktail so all these, I’m going to sip them, I’m going to drink them, I’m going to savor them, I’m going to expect that you do the same. If you don’t want to, when you see the prices, you’ll understand why this is sipping. What we’re going to do is we’re going to start with Tres Generaciones. This little guy here, big guy, weighs in at $50.00. Now, that’s going to be our starting price. Notice that the sample sizes are a lot smaller than the last one. Two reasons, they’re expensive so I don’t know if everybody wants to bring them and ship them in for sampling and that’s why we have some sample sizes here. Secondly, not every company has Añejo. Some like Riazul has Añejo and Silver for now and otherwise I think it’s just expensive and they’re not always available. The Riazul, $52.00 to $56.00, we just did an interview with Riazul. If you want to know everything about Añejo, Silvers, Reposados, their brands, Tequila making in general, what’s the difference in the barrels, go to everydaydrinkers.com or go to iTunes and subscribe to our Podcast or Audio Podcast. It’s Everyday Drinkers, just type that in and it’ll come up and you can get the interview and it’s really interesting. It was a great time. I appreciate them coming out to do that or coming out on Skype to do that. We’ve also got the Dos Lunas. This is Añejo for sample only. We have the El Diamante Del Cielo, represents all three. With this time, we’re moving to the Añejos. The Dos Lunas we’re looking at between it’s really around $55.00, the Cielo we’re looking at $60.00 and then of course Partida comes in. It’s a little smaller this time with their Añejo which is going to cost you for a big bottle. These are all big bottles here. This is going to cost you about $70.00. So think sipping, don’t think how I’m going to blow through this in a weekend party. This is not a party drink so this is for respecting. The other thing to notice is age, all these are aged. Añejos are barrel-aged. Typically that’s why you’re going to get darker colors. You’re looking at, at least one year worth of aging. They also make a 3-year and they’ve not get this new classification for this style. It’s called either Ultra Añejo, Extra Añejo, 3 Plus years, lots of money. The Ultra Añejo or Super Añejo whatever that the extra age of Partida for example weighs in at about $350.00 so you’ve got to be serious about that style to go to that direction but you’re getting more of a whiskey cognac like aged drink. These are also going to be aged so they’re going to have their own dynamics of flavor. I’ve got glasses pre-poured, this is the Tres Generaciones glass so I’ve of course, put Tres Generaciones in there and the Riazul, Dos Lunas, Cielo and Partida. Let’s get started. We’ll start with the Tres Generaciones. It’s got a nice, smooth smell to it, smooth nose. It’s got a little bit of oak caramel, sweet like a pineapple, little fresh pineapple smell to it compared to the other Tequilas we’ve done, these have lots of awesome scents. We’re just going to try. The Tres Generaciones by the way, 84 points, I can’t remember exactly who rated it, probably the Beverage Institute. There are a couple different rating systems. I went to tastings.com to find out the ratings. Very clean finish, no sourness to it. Leaves like a, I don’t know I think it’s a candy type flavoring, maybe a little oak, vanilla oak cream style aftertaste. The aftertaste is actually really wonderful. I’m telling you right now I’m not going to not recommend any of these. What I’m going to do is I’m going to is I’m going to rank them to what I think I would prefer. But any of them are perfect. I mean you’re on the sipping. You’re already in the $50.00 range. So very smooth, a little thinner than I think. I’ve tasted some of these before and I think it might be a little thinner, the Tres Generaciones. But overall, viscosity might be a little like great tasting experience, clean finish. The Riazul, it’s got like a, I like to call it a caramel meats, like an overripe pineapple skin if you will, little vanilla chocolate which is neat. This one has a chocolate, the other one so, I don’t think, maybe this will, but the Tres Generaciones doesn’t have this chocolate thing. Huge difference in viscosity, the thickness, it’s very clean finished. It’s all ready, there’s no alcohol burn. It’s got a lot of cool flavors going on, different scents of fruits, almost like a cognac if you’re into cognacs or an aged whiskey. We’re talking about something like great vanillas and chocolates like a little Swish chocolate, a little pineapple, lots of Agaves, sweet, sweet Agave flavors, definitely very clean, very refined. The Riazul is definitely, I don’t know, it’s not really, I don’t think this is rated yet. I’ve looked around but it’s kind of new. They’re starting up a Company; they’re still getting out there so right now you can find this in Texas. You could find Tres Generaciones I believe everywhere. So Texas, Illinois, I think it was and they’ll be in Chicago and New York soon. So overall, it’s really refined Tequila, it’s perfected. The Dos Lunas, it’s got a little more rubber, kind of rubber meats the road, I smell and a sweet Agave. Not as sweet, a little rougher than I think than this. The Dos Lunas scores 87 points. Now these aren’t my scores. These are the scores that other people have rated them, probably people smarter than me. Oak, lots of oaks, like an old tree oak, not bad, there’s a lot of creaminess, a lot of oak going on so it seems to be a little oak tree or maybe the American. I think the American Oak Barrels don’t hold in. They bring out the oak more in the drinks so that might be that what they’re using. Definitely mature in age, very bright finished, a little alcohol, tropical fruits. I think there are more tropical fruits. Those are kind of cool, if you’re in tropical fruits, which are not, maybe like a little mango. The Cielo, now this one of course is 60US dollars, so we move now from the 55. We’re now jumping into the $60.00 range. Cielo, I’m telling you right now, is rated 96 points. That’s 100 as perfect. Nothing we have is better than 96 points. We’ve got a 90 point, but 96 points is pretty intense. It’s a little alcohol burning on the nose, very vanilla, candy caramel, Swish chocolate, Caramello. It’s like a Caramello if you let it sit in the sun. Very smooth, very chocolatey, out of all, this one has the most chocolates. The Riazul has a hint of chocolate, most of the flavored profiles of the Riazul, you have to think about. Maybe if you’re planning a little game with some buddies, you get some Riazul. You sit down and you chase it and people pick out flavors and then just yell them out and then you’ll probably start to taste them. That’s just your imagination, they’re just subtle. This is really like chocolate. Not candy sweet but candy flavors, like you can feel the candy flavors in them. Dark candies like chocolates and maybe a dark chocolate, Swish chocolate, German chocolate and the nose is definitely, you just put your mouth in it. It smells like vanilla candy or like a white chocolate, vanilla ice cream. Pour this on vanilla ice cream, it’s good time. Very smooth, a little smoother I think than the Dos Lunas which is you know, that to me is important. I like to have something that’s very smooth and round on the palette rather than chew watery and liquidy. Overall, I think the Riazul is the smoothes thus far, let’s do this. And then lastly, the Partida, it’s kind of getting a little fuel. It’s almost like if you dump a pineapple mix with an Agave and you put in a rubbing alcohol with vanilla and oak. It’s not as smooth. It’s just very powerful. If you like your alcohol the entire flavor in your face, this brings a lot of different complex flavors and it just gets a little more burn. My tongue is on fire. Not as thick as I expected it to be. The Partida, it’s a 90 point, 90 point tequila. I don’t want to do that but I hate it. I mean, it’s $60.00 bottle or $70.00 bottle of tequila. I don’t think it’s as good as the Cielo. The Cielo is going run you $60.00, like I said, I like them all but for my money I would go for the Riazul, tastes the best and it’s one of the cheaper ones at $52. I think Cielo’s very competitive very close to the Riazul in price, texture and flavors. I like the subtleness of this. This has some cool chocolates, this is a little potent. No, I don’t want. For my palate, I’m not a huge fan of the attack. Just the attack of alcohols on that, I think the Tres Generaciones is a little better on that area, plus it’s got the cool flavor profile and the viscosity, so that’s the way I’m going to rate them. I’m pretty confident I’ve had all these before. I enjoy all of them. You could sit down, sip all these if you can’t handle the alcohols, for instance in the Partida, you ice it up, throw it in a little shot glass or maybe a rocks glass and I think it will tone down a little bit and you’ll probably get new flavors. When you add waters and ices you’re going to get different flavors, even different scents from them. So you want to try that as your next phase if you’re into this. Even if you only have one bottle, try it with ice and try it without and you might see that there’s a lot of difference to it. I’m excited about the different types of brands and I urge you just do it once, just to try it. Go out and spend a little money, $50.00 plus, keep it under 70 bucks and you should be able to find a good Añejo. I think that pretty much covers it. I’m your host Derrick Schommer and we’re teaching you how to drink Añejo Tequila.

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Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer. Today we’re doing our final Tequila tasting.

This is the Añejo, it’s the most expensive. Let’s move this because that’s just driving me crazy. This is my Cabo Wabo Diablo. Cabo Wabo wasn’t able to be brought in so the Diablo represents Cabo Wabo. The Añejo is a sipping tequila. You can put it in a mixed drink if you want to. I just don’t know anybody that wants to put it into a cocktail so all these, I’m going to sip them, I’m going to drink them, I’m going to savor them, I’m going to expect that you do the same. If you don’t want to, when you see the prices, you’ll understand why this is sipping.

What we’re going to do is we’re going to start with Tres Generaciones. This little guy here, big guy, weighs in at $50.00. Now, that’s going to be our starting price. Notice that the sample sizes are a lot smaller than the last one. Two reasons, they’re expensive so I don’t know if everybody wants to bring them and ship them in for sampling and that’s why we have some sample sizes here.

Secondly, not every company has Añejo. Some like Riazul has Añejo and Silver for now and otherwise I think it’s just expensive and they’re not always available. The Riazul, $52.00 to $56.00, we just did an interview with Riazul. If you want to know everything about Añejo, Silvers, Reposados, their brands, Tequila making in general, what’s the difference in the barrels, go to everydaydrinkers.com or go to iTunes and subscribe to our Podcast or Audio Podcast. It’s Everyday Drinkers, just type that in and it’ll come up and you can get the interview and it’s really interesting. It was a great time. I appreciate them coming out to do that or coming out on Skype to do that.

We’ve also got the Dos Lunas. This is Añejo for sample only. We have the El Diamante Del Cielo, represents all three. With this time, we’re moving to the Añejos. The Dos Lunas we’re looking at between it’s really around $55.00, the Cielo we’re looking at $60.00 and then of course Partida comes in. It’s a little smaller this time with their Añejo which is going to cost you for a big bottle. These are all big bottles here. This is going to cost you about $70.00.

So think sipping, don’t think how I’m going to blow through this in a weekend party. This is not a party drink so this is for respecting. The other thing to notice is age, all these are aged. Añejos are barrel-aged. Typically that’s why you’re going to get darker colors. You’re looking at, at least one year worth of aging. They also make a 3-year and they’ve not get this new classification for this style. It’s called either Ultra Añejo, Extra Añejo, 3 Plus years, lots of money.

The Ultra Añejo or Super Añejo whatever that the extra age of Partida for example weighs in at about $350.00 so you’ve got to be serious about that style to go to that direction but you’re getting more of a whiskey cognac like aged drink. These are also going to be aged so they’re going to have their own dynamics of flavor. I’ve got glasses pre-poured, this is the Tres Generaciones glass so I’ve of course, put Tres Generaciones in there and the Riazul, Dos Lunas, Cielo and Partida. Let’s get started.

We’ll start with the Tres Generaciones. It’s got a nice, smooth smell to it, smooth nose. It’s got a little bit of oak caramel, sweet like a pineapple, little fresh pineapple smell to it compared to the other Tequilas we’ve done, these have lots of awesome scents. We’re just going to try. The Tres Generaciones by the way, 84 points, I can’t remember exactly who rated it, probably the Beverage Institute.

There are a couple different rating systems. I went to tastings.com to find out the ratings. Very clean finish, no sourness to it. Leaves like a, I don’t know I think it’s a candy type flavoring, maybe a little oak, vanilla oak cream style aftertaste. The aftertaste is actually really wonderful. I’m telling you right now I’m not going to not recommend any of these. What I’m going to do is I’m going to is I’m going to rank them to what I think I would prefer. But any of them are perfect. I mean you’re on the sipping. You’re already in the $50.00 range. So very smooth, a little thinner than I think. I’ve tasted some of these before and I think it might be a little thinner, the Tres Generaciones. But overall, viscosity might be a little like great tasting experience, clean finish.

The Riazul, it’s got like a, I like to call it a caramel meats, like an overripe pineapple skin if you will, little vanilla chocolate which is neat. This one has a chocolate, the other one so, I don’t think, maybe this will, but the Tres Generaciones doesn’t have this chocolate thing. Huge difference in viscosity, the thickness, it’s very clean finished. It’s all ready, there’s no alcohol burn. It’s got a lot of cool flavors going on, different scents of fruits, almost like a cognac if you’re into cognacs or an aged whiskey.

We’re talking about something like great vanillas and chocolates like a little Swish chocolate, a little pineapple, lots of Agaves, sweet, sweet Agave flavors, definitely very clean, very refined. The Riazul is definitely, I don’t know, it’s not really, I don’t think this is rated yet. I’ve looked around but it’s kind of new. They’re starting up a Company; they’re still getting out there so right now you can find this in Texas. You could find Tres Generaciones I believe everywhere. So Texas, Illinois, I think it was and they’ll be in Chicago and New York soon. So overall, it’s really refined Tequila, it’s perfected.

The Dos Lunas, it’s got a little more rubber, kind of rubber meats the road, I smell and a sweet Agave. Not as sweet, a little rougher than I think than this. The Dos Lunas scores 87 points. Now these aren’t my scores. These are the scores that other people have rated them, probably people smarter than me. Oak, lots of oaks, like an old tree oak, not bad, there’s a lot of creaminess, a lot of oak going on so it seems to be a little oak tree or maybe the American. I think the American Oak Barrels don’t hold in. They bring out the oak more in the drinks so that might be that what they’re using. Definitely mature in age, very bright finished, a little alcohol, tropical fruits. I think there are more tropical fruits. Those are kind of cool, if you’re in tropical fruits, which are not, maybe like a little mango.

The Cielo, now this one of course is 60US dollars, so we move now from the 55. We’re now jumping into the $60.00 range. Cielo, I’m telling you right now, is rated 96 points. That’s 100 as perfect. Nothing we have is better than 96 points. We’ve got a 90 point, but 96 points is pretty intense. It’s a little alcohol burning on the nose, very vanilla, candy caramel, Swish chocolate, Caramello. It’s like a Caramello if you let it sit in the sun. Very smooth, very chocolatey, out of all, this one has the most chocolates.

The Riazul has a hint of chocolate, most of the flavored profiles of the Riazul, you have to think about. Maybe if you’re planning a little game with some buddies, you get some Riazul. You sit down and you chase it and people pick out flavors and then just yell them out and then you’ll probably start to taste them. That’s just your imagination, they’re just subtle. This is really like chocolate. Not candy sweet but candy flavors, like you can feel the candy flavors in them. Dark candies like chocolates and maybe a dark chocolate, Swish chocolate, German chocolate and the nose is definitely, you just put your mouth in it. It smells like vanilla candy or like a white chocolate, vanilla ice cream.

Pour this on vanilla ice cream, it’s good time. Very smooth, a little smoother I think than the Dos Lunas which is you know, that to me is important. I like to have something that’s very smooth and round on the palette rather than chew watery and liquidy. Overall, I think the Riazul is the smoothes thus far, let’s do this.

And then lastly, the Partida, it’s kind of getting a little fuel. It’s almost like if you dump a pineapple mix with an Agave and you put in a rubbing alcohol with vanilla and oak. It’s not as smooth. It’s just very powerful. If you like your alcohol the entire flavor in your face, this brings a lot of different complex flavors and it just gets a little more burn. My tongue is on fire. Not as thick as I expected it to be. The Partida, it’s a 90 point, 90 point tequila. I don’t want to do that but I hate it. I mean, it’s $60.00 bottle or $70.00 bottle of tequila. I don’t think it’s as good as the Cielo. The Cielo is going run you $60.00, like I said, I like them all but for my money I would go for the Riazul, tastes the best and it’s one of the cheaper ones at $52.

I think Cielo’s very competitive very close to the Riazul in price, texture and flavors. I like the subtleness of this. This has some cool chocolates, this is a little potent. No, I don’t want. For my palate, I’m not a huge fan of the attack. Just the attack of alcohols on that, I think the Tres Generaciones is a little better on that area, plus it’s got the cool flavor profile and the viscosity, so that’s the way I’m going to rate them.

I’m pretty confident I’ve had all these before. I enjoy all of them. You could sit down, sip all these if you can’t handle the alcohols, for instance in the Partida, you ice it up, throw it in a little shot glass or maybe a rocks glass and I think it will tone down a little bit and you’ll probably get new flavors. When you add waters and ices you’re going to get different flavors, even different scents from them. So you want to try that as your next phase if you’re into this.

Even if you only have one bottle, try it with ice and try it without and you might see that there’s a lot of difference to it. I’m excited about the different types of brands and I urge you just do it once, just to try it. Go out and spend a little money, $50.00 plus, keep it under 70 bucks and you should be able to find a good Añejo. I think that pretty much covers it.

I’m your host Derrick Schommer and we’re teaching you how to drink Añejo Tequila.

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