Visit a Tequila distillery in Mexico

“So, my wife and I visited Tequila last week while we were vacationing. We got a tour from Guadalajara, and visited the Tequila Selecto Distillery in Amatitan, and the original Jose Cuervo distillery, La Rojena in the town of Tequila itself. I've been on a lot of distillery tours in bourbon country, so it was interesting to see how different tequila production is from that. We also did some tastings. Let me tell you, they do not fuck around when it comes to tastings in Mexico. I think their goal is to get you drunk enough to buy their most expensive tequilas, lol. At Selecto we tasted 15 or so tequilas. There were double- and triple-distilled versions of blanco, reposado, anejo, extra-anejo (4-year old), plus a 5-year old, and an 8-year old aged specifically in whisky barrels (surprise!, it just tasted like whiskey). At Cuervo, we toured the original distillery, which is still used for small batch stuff. We got to taste the full proof stuff right off the still, and tequila aged 6, 12, and 18 months to compare. I was really looking forward to the final tasting, hoping to try some special stuff, but all they had for us was chilled Cuervo Traditional, Blanco and reposado (as much as we wanted, of course, before exiting through the store), so that was a bit disappointing.”

“I did as much Cuervo as you can without a tour. Additionally I visited Tres Mujeres and had a wonderful time. They had two locations, the first was the distillery and cellar. The second was a sort of event center in the fields where they let us sample everything and then played Mariachi which I strongly feel is the correct order for those activities. ;-) Ton of fun!”