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RESULTS OF THE TEQUILA TASTING 2007
Does anyone remember the results of the tasting?
I'm holding off buying a new bottle pending the results.
Ken
[Edited on 5-7-2007 by tripledigitken]
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Just don't get 4 Vientos, last place  
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Don Julio?
MAGA
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Corellejos, Blue bottle, $17 at Costco in Ensenada and Cabo. Close to $60 here in Oregon. Delicious. Entire production used to go to Japan. No
Brainer! and enough and you will be no brainer.
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That is not the winer, it was a clear bottle.
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fdt
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The first winer wasn't even tequila, it was charanda from Michoacan, so the second place got first.
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Well, I was a judge and I picked Number 2 to be first and it was Don Julio and I brought it and picked it out of 12 choices. Now, that is either a
good thing in that I know the tequila I like and drink or I have a taste for it so strong that I can pick it out from others. Either way we had a
number of good tasting tequilas and we had about 3 that could have been mistaken for gasoline. This was my first time at the book signing and I will
return met a lot of interesting and informative people that are Nomads and eagerly want to help you out with information to help you avoid the
pitfalls that can occur in not only Baja but anywhere in Mexico. Fdt it was really fun meeting you and your wife and my buddy that also came to the
event says you are also a wealth of information on Mexico. I told him we need to get him on board as BajaFrancisco but I need to check to make sure
there is not anyone using this name. I definately encourage anyone that has not attended one of these events to do so, as you will definately leave
with good thoughts and rested from the stay. By the way thanks Keri for hosting this. Later------------------------------------bajafun777
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El Tarasco was the winner...by quite a margin if I remember correctly (always doubtful) - Georock is holding a bottle of it in this thread.
It has our mark "10" on the bottle.
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Well Jeans you are right the El Tarasco was the official winner and you can not argue with the votes. Number 10 was my 2nd choice and it was also a
good tasting tequila. If you remember the 1st winner was deemed to be made out of grapes and was disqualified, so Number 10 jumped in to 1st place.
However, after drinking 12 shots of tequila next year we need to make sure we have a beer chaser to clear the taste buds and cracker just does not
seem right. Georock was a laugh a minute during this selection process and you were also having a great time like the rest of us. Later---bajafun777
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I was a taster, and #10 won... but as noted above it wasn't a true Tequila as it was made outside of Jalisco... But, I pick taste and it tasted better
than the others that night!
Also, GeoRock reported it was only $8 a bottle... Almost as good a price as that stuff in the plastic beehive bottle we were drinking at Camp Gecko a
few years ago, around the campfire.
The 'real tequila' winner to my taste and the #2 overall choice was Cien Años Blanco (bottle #1), and #3 (for me)was La Doña (bottle #6)...
The above edited to reflect that those top three were my personal choices... the group also picked the same #1 as I, but #2 was El Caprich and #3 was
Hornitos... unless Geo Rock says elsewise.
My notes said Don Julio (BOTTLE #2) tasted like gasoline (Magna)
[Edited on 5-9-2007 by David K]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajafun777
we had about 3 that could have been mistaken for gasoline. |
Darn, you're giving people to many clues and soon they will find out that jeans and I buy our tequilas at pemex
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Man, that must have been fun!
What great pics!
Looks like my fav didn't make the top five even 
Saludos
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The real tequila winner and the #2 overall choice was Cien Años Blanco (bottle #1), and #3 was La Doña (bottle #6)...
Now, my notes are pretty sloppy, so I am happy to concede those results if GeoRock posts something different!
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How about if I say something different? I brought bottle #1 Cien Años Blanco..and it came in second from the bottom......FDT & I can
really pick 'em.
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The last time I was a taster, Gran Centenario Añejo won... brought by elgatoloco. It wasn't one of the choices this time.
I was hoping to have some LOS ABUELOS there, that we tried at Mexico Expo... that was really SUPER good. Alas, the Añejo was outside my budget... for
the trip! Maybe next time???
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For David K,
Your eariler post stated " but as noted above it wasn't a true Tequila as it was made outside of Jalisco...
As a matter of fact tequila can be made and bottled anywhere in Mexico as long as the rules are adheared to, and since last year can be shipped and
sold in bulk and bottled in the USA...hope this helps, Rick
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Thanks for the new rules... before, if it was made in Oaxaca or ??, it had to be called Mezcal, yes?
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Here are the 1970's rules:
In order to preserve tequila's integrity and protect their national treasure, the Mexican government formulated NORMAS in the 1970s to establish and
govern tequila standards of production. By law, tequila must meet the following criteria:
it must be made from 100 percent natural ingredients
it must be produced with no less than 38 percent alcohol by bolum (ABV)
it must be made from blue agave grown and harvested only in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit or Tamaulipas
the fermented agave juice must be distilled twice and the finished product must result from the agave juice processing
the final product must be produced form no less than 51 percent reduced sugars from the blue agave
it must be labeled with 'hecho en Mexico' (made in Mexico), 'NOM' (Norma Official Mexicana), the producer's four digit registration and identification
number and the tequila's age (resposado, anejo, blanco, oro).
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and here are the 2006 rules:
2006 Tequila Trade Agreement
On January 17, 2006 the United States and Mexico signed an agreement allowing the continued bulk import of Tequila into the United States. Without
this agreement all tequila would have had to be bottled in Mexico. However, bulk importing applies to "well Tequila" which must include a minimum of
51% agave. 100% agave Tequilas must be bottled in Mexico. In addition to allowing bulk import, the agreement also created a “tequila bottlers
registry” that identifies approved bottlers of tequila.
I live in the state of Nayarit and there are many acres of blue here...Rick
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jeans
El Tarasco was the winner...by quite a margin if I remember correctly (always doubtful) - Georock is holding a bottle of it in this thread.
It has our mark "10" on the bottle. |
Where can a bottle of the nectar known as "El Tarasco" be purchased? And at what price?
Bevmo does not seem to have any....
[Edited on 5-8-2007 by Taco de Baja]
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El Tarasco is not made from agave so it's not tequila, it's Charanda
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