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High-end 100% Blue Agave Tequila by Cazadores de Arandas lives up to the hype… mostly… and hey, the bottle will make a great vase. I was given a bottle of this stuff recently by a friend for some web work I did, and I’ve been really happy with it. In fact… I’ve been a little too happy and the damn bottle is already half-gone. Thank God I didn’t have to buy it though, since I hear my buddy had to come up with at least one pound of flesh and refinance his house just to get his hands on one 750.

What They Say (what the maker says)
The meeting of art and science creates the purest, most refined spirit possible– a tequila of extraordinary character with the full flavor of pure blue agave and an ultra smooth finish… Corzo reposado combines the elegance of Corzo silver with hints of oak and honey.

What I Say
Yeah, well… could you be any more vague? What art? What science? Tell me more, Goddammit! I wanna know what they did to make this grog worthy of that pricetag. I thought originally, “well, printing is expensive, maybe they’ve got some more info on their website at www.corzo.com“, but I thought wrong. The website is, if possible, even more vague than the printed materials that come with the bottle.

Granted.. this is a tequila that actually comes with printed materials… so that says something all by itself, even if the printed materials suck (given, it comes with a tastefully designed little book… that’s just light on useful info and heavy on fluff). Makes a good gift though.

So all that aside… how does this stuff taste? Great. It is truly a tequila-lover’s tequila, no doubt about it. They’re not kidding about the hints of oak and honey, though the oak sits way back in the backseat and a real rich agave layer sits fat, dumb and happy on top of a not-so subtle honey undertone. The honey’s real prominent in the nose, though all three definitely hang out and party on your tastebuds… and the party rages on long past the time you’ve finished a glass; in fact, the most remarkable thing about the overall flavor of this tequila is how long it stays with you: The character hangs out with you in the form of what is probably the most pleasant aftertaste I’ve ever experienced in a liquor– and it sticks around for hours. Really, I shit you not.

I have always been a fan of a?ejo tequilas, but this reposado has enough oak in the mix to really hang tough with any good a?ejo. But it stays firmly in the Tequila camp, where a lot of a?ejos in this range really slam home the oak and thereby lean way over the fence into the Cognac or aged bourbon camp. The agave stays with you all the way through the ride with Corzo, but the honey and oak tone it down enough to keep the agave from instilling a gag reflex in people who won’t drink tequila anymore because they puked on it the first time they ever drank back in high school. My buddy who bought it for me hates tequila, but he shared a glass with me and wanted another, even though this is really a true tequila. Make sense? Yeah, whatever. It’s true. Once again, I shit you not.

This is not a tequila that you make a margarita with. This is not a tequila that you shoot. If I catch anyone doing either, I reserve the right to confiscate the rest of your bottle. Pure alcohol abuse.

Overall score on the BoozeReviews 100 point scale?
I’ll give it a 120 straight away, and then deduct 25 points for price and another 5 for the fact that their website sucks.

(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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