Tequila tasting

Oxymoron i thought, how do tequila and tasting, go hand in hand? I have never tasted tequila before, it was always with a lime, salt and boom toro tequila shots. Instant buzz. With this thought i went to the tequila tasting party with some of my project mates. By the end of hour I tasted some amazing tequila.

The host of the hour started us off with some tasty appetizers, to get us going. Then he went on to explain how tequila is made, how agave's are farmed. How long does each type of agave, take to grow. How they are hand distilled. How long they are kept in the barrel and stuff. And also how criminal it is to outsource tequila production. For more in formation about tequila, check out here.

We were served three different kinds of tequila, Blanco, Reposado and Anejo, distilled by Tezon. Each of these tequila have different smell, different "first" taste, and different "after effect" taste. Atlest that's what we felt after the host told us about it. All the three tequilas are aged differently.

A common myth about tequila, is that it contains a worm in it. But according to our host, the worm comes from the agave itself, and it denotes the fact that the plant is infested with worms. But to make the tequila more interesting, and as a marketing gimmick, some distillers do put the worm in the tequila. The host showed us one such bottle as well.

Go taste the tequila next time.