Fortaleza Blanco Tequila 70 cl

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Consumers increasingly obsessed with ‘clean’ (chemical-free) food products have raised concerns that with this lack of transparency, we might be swigging back ingredients that are actually harmful to health.

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If you’ve been living under a rock, you might not know that Kendall Jenner recently put her name to a tequila. This outstanding reposado tequila offers a balance of agave sweetness and oak notes with a hint of spice. It has notes of cooked agave, olive oil, green pepper, orange and lemon peels, vanilla, oak, and herbaceous mint. It is an entirely voluntary programme, so the brands on the list are by no means an exhaustive look at who is or isn’t using synthetic ingredients, but for those who do invite TM to review their distillery, the methods of certification are robust. This incredible wine has bourbon-like vanilla, butterscotch, and oak flavors combined with a hint of blue Agave sweetness.Unfortunately though - knowing that artisanal versions, made on a farm by hand, are looked upon so favourably - tequila companies are learning how to better make it look like this is what’s going on. It would be amazing if people with so much public presence used it to explain a little more about Mexican culture and what our concerns are in the tequila industry,’ she continues.

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Try a series of well curated tequilas and see if you can’t begin to identify the natural flavour profiles. I think this is perfect for cocktails as it has sweet notes throughout or can work well with a mixer, when my mezcal loving friend last visited she was absolutely blown away with this one.

But if you’re prone to paying top dollar for a drink of quality and maddened to think you could be sipping on the same nauseating firewater as your Maccy D loving friends, damaging the planet in the process, there are ways to look into what you’re paying for. Sure, there’s the red hat variety, the production for which we don’t really linger on because it’s cheap and usually has the intended effect of getting people very drunk, very quickly. On balance, though, there is enormous potential for celebrity tequilas to exacerbate existing issues, by pushing up demand and enabling further short-cutting, while not doing much to protect the traditions or the environment.

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The Extra Añejo is aged for 36 months in American oak barrels, resulting in an ultra-smooth tequila with notes of raisins and coffee.This tequila is pure Agave, rich, complex, and tasty, with the right amount of warmth to make a great sipper. These artificial flavours have become so sophisticated, so potent that you can literally get a toothpick, dip it into a little vial, put it in a bottle of blanco [the white, freshly distilled tequila spirit] and in seconds, it looks and tastes like a reposado [a tequila that requires some time ageing in an oak barrel],’ says Hechter. Aged in American white oak barrels and containing no additives, Cimarron Reposado is a great full-flavored Tequila you can enjoy neat or mixed in a margarita. Every person entering the market avoiding the slower, more careful artisanal methods in favour of too-early harvesting and high turnover, is contributing to the ravishing of Jalisco’s farmlands.

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The silver tequila is less expensive than the gold tequila, making it an excellent mixer for mixed drinks and margaritas. Reposado is a delicious cocktail that balances the sweet and oaky flavors of the bourbon barrel with the Agave. In the long run, you’ll be contributing less to Mexico’s big tequila problem, and in the short, you’ll no longer be a fool. Speaking to Grover Sanschagrin - co-founder of Tequila Matchmaker, a database which categorises and ranks tequilas based on reviews of distilleries and production practises – he says we’re beginning to see more NOM-based trickery.Beyond that, as is the enduring trend, we in the rest of the world seem to enjoy Mexican exports while showing total disregard for Mexican people and if we’re not careful, our appropriation of tequila could leave them much further disenfranchised. If you’re looking for a high-quality, award-winning tequila, then Fortaleza is definitely a good choice. The levels of caramel colouring considered carcinogenic have not been studied in humans, and the FDA is currently reviewing data on levels deemed safe for the food supply.