Sauza Hornitos Tequila
The poor man’s Viagra… fix up a stiff one with this dependable standby and you’ll be partying all night long and wake up wearing your pants on your headI am not a Cuervo kind of guy.
I’ve always thought of Cuervo as sort of a last resort. Maybe it was the obnoxious volleyball tournament they used to sponsor on main beach here in Santa Cruz… maybe it’s the fact that Cuervo tequila tastes like it was made using agave substitute… I dunno… either way, when I need a good old standby Tequila, a Margarita Tequila, or a shooting tequila, I sack up the extra buck or so and drink Hornitos.
Now, follow me for a second here…
This is not the kind of tequila that you sip with a fine cigar (though it serves in a pinch). This is the kind of tequila that makes you cock your head to one side and think, “hey, not bad” while licking it off a stripper’s chest.
What we’ve got here is a straight-up party tequila, heavy on agave, but served up with an essence of lime already in the mix. Not a purist’s tequila, but it makes for a mean Margarita and it’s pure enough that the hangover factor is not as great as if you were drinking your local chain grocery store’s black label brand.
When in Mexico, I make a point of always– and I mean always sucking down a shot or two of this stuff between fish tacos. And in 5 trips south of the border I have not yet had a single case of baja blow-ass (knocking on wood). Think of it like a tasty kind of disinfectant/Immodium AD.
One night in Big Sur several years back, my wife and I were camping and got caught in one hell of a storm. Raining sideways. So at 4:00 in the afternoon we grabbed a 5th of Hornitos, some tortilla chips and a deck of cards, and crawled into our tent to ride it out. By midnight the wind and rain was so strong that we peeked out of the tent to see our camp neighbor’s tent rolling end-over-end across the campground– with him and aall his stuff in it. We drank that whole bottle that night, since it was basically impossible to sleep, and emerged in the morning dry, slightly bent but not barfing, with our tent and selves mostly intact… to find the entire campground in a shambles. Tents in tatters everywhere, trailer’s without their awnings, busted flagpole, etc, etc, etc…
But we were fine.
We had the Hornitos.
Can I rate this stuff?? Well, on a sipping Tequila scale, it probably rates 50 points, if you set it next to Corzo or 1800 Milenium Reserve. But you just can’t rate Hornitos on that kind of a scale.
I’d give it a flat out hundo on the “Old Standby Tequila” scale– it’s the standby that all others are judged by, it kept my tent and wits from unraveling that night in Big Sur… and it’s kept my innards intact on multiple trips south of the border. How can you rate that kind of service??
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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