Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Let's talk about a Rosa. All right. I'm excited about this tequila. Elevation 1250. This is a phenomenal tequila being made out of Hacienda de Ora in matatan nom. 1522. Master distiller Ileana Partita, one of the nicest people I've ever met and fourth generation master distiller. She's absolutely killing it. So this is a tequila that they actually, it's a blanco. They actually aged it for two weeks in some Napa French oak red wine barrels. So since it's only rested two weeks, it's still considered a blanco. But look at how much red color that red wine imparted into this tequila. All right, let's pop that out first. Pour out of this one. All right, so this is Vallez Agaves. They use a high pressure autoclave. They use a roller mill. They use deep well water there. Their water tastes absolutely amazing. Some people are like, oh, high pressure autoclave. Autoclave stone oven. I'm going to tell you that I've eaten the agave out of these, these autoclaves right there at 15:22 and it's absolutely amazing. Some of the sweetest agave that you'll ever have. So when it's done right, it's done good, it tastes amazing. And Ileana knows how to make amazing tequila there. So after that autoclave, it's going through their roller mill. After the roller mill, they're going into spontaneous open air fermentation in stainless steel tanks. And this distillery is in a great area of the town. There's lots of vegetation around it. There's some beautiful trees just right in their courtyard. That's all imparting things to help that yeast grow and really giving it a terroir of the area.
[00:01:42] So let's dive into this open fermentation twice distilled product.
[00:01:49] Wow. On the nose you get that cooked agave, but you get a little bit of pear, some nice spices, a little bit of funkiness. When I say funkiness, it's in a good way. It's in. It's hard to explain. It's. It's got this not really a malolactic funkiness where it's really strong, but just this nice creamy smell. Very little alcohol in the nose. The first nose I got a little bit. The second one is pretty much gone. It's got great legs on the glass too. Yeah, that's a complex nose. You do pick up a little bit of oak and that smell as well. Let's, let's dive into this one. Let's Go cook the agave. That pear is there that I got in the nose is, wow. It's really well balanced. It's really gets your whole mouth tingling. It's got a nice warm finish. I get a little bit of the barrel notes. It's got a dryness in the mouth as well. The sweetness is really good too. Kind of, I want to say a little bit peppery in that finish, but it's not really pepper. It's just kind of spicy and warm. That's. That's really awesome. A cooked agave is really nice and strong, so really, really agave forward. But there's some stone fruit in there along with that peach that gives you this really nice flavors. Almost like I've had a tequila that's rested in a sherry barrel where you get this real fruity flavor in it and then the dryness comes in there. And don't get me wrong, there's some minerality in there too. You pick up that 1522 kind of thumbprint of minerality. This is. This is a great tequila. This complex tequila too. I really think if. If you're a wine drinker making the step into tequila, there's enough flavors in this that I think you would really like it. So definitely check this one out. Elevation 1250. Like I said, my friend Eli on a partita master distiller. Now I'm 1522. I'll stick a website up here also.
[00:03:41] I'll put some of their social media up here and maybe you can find this bottle. One thing nice about it, it did come in a little hotter than a regular tequila, although it didn't drink like it was. So this is 42 ABV. So 84.
[00:03:55] Didn't. Didn't taste that in. In the taste of his drinks. Really easy drinks, light. It's very clean. So elevation 1250. This is one that I'm working on setting up a brand to interview with so we can kind of talk about their process and how they came up with the tequila and how they got the opportunity to work with ILI and Apartita. So let me know if you've had this tequila. Let me know what you think about it. If you haven't, look for it. It's a great one. Like, comment, share all those. One of the things. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great night.
