Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] All right, we're back to do another train my tequila nose. Over the last few episodes, we've trained our noses with spice, with pepper, with floral aromas. And the one thing I've learned about tasting tequila, it isn't all about having a better palate. Sometimes it's about having a better memory. The more aromas you can recognize, the more aromas you can identify in the glass. So today we're going to take the next step. My wife pulled three vials from the wine savant kit. She did not tell me what they were. She covered them up with tape. She looked at me, and this is the only clue she gave me. Pick some rested tequila. So I picked two. One that I haven't had on this show in a while. Nueve Uno, the Repo Deep, which is a phenomenal reposado Tequila done the right way. And Inspiros reserve Anejo, which I'm excited about. This one, this one is a rose. It's in pinot noir barrels, and it's such a good tequila. So I want to see if I can identify the three aromas that my wife gave to me and see if I can find them in the glass. Now, just so you know, this one is the Repo Deep, and this one is the Inspiro. Let's start with the first one that she got me, and I'm going to smell it. I put them on these little sticks because the aroma soaks into the paper and it's more identifiable than just directly out of a vial. I think I know exactly what that is. This, to me, smells like caramel. And, man, you can. You can smell that in the glass. It's amazing how much it amplifies it. I get some nice cooked agave and a really nice woody note, but the caramel stands out. And. And wow. Okay, that changes this one. You. You get the caramel note, but I get so much more of the wine barrel influence. This one with this smells like I'm walking into one of those, like, musty barrel rooms where you get the smell of the wood and the. The. The tequila that's in there. So that was really good. So I'm going to say that's caramel. That smells like caramel to me all day long. So let's do number two. Hmm. Okay. This smells like wood. It literally smells like a fresh cut tree. And when you go into the nose of this first Reposado Deep by Nueva Uno, I get the same wood note, but I get an amplified citrus note that I didn't get before. Use Them together, I get a little bit of a smoky note. So this is some kind of wood. Oh, wow. That changed this one completely too. So instead of that wine barrel note, I get wood just like, I'm going to say oak. Like an oaky wood smell. It almost brings out a little bit of like a smoky sawdust. Okay, so can't. Can't identify exactly, but it smells like wood. Let's grab this last one here. Oh, that's same smell that's in here. Boy, this is sweet. Can't identify the smell, but it amplified the caramel note in there. Did the same here. Amplifies this caramel note and amplified that barrel woody note. Okay, this is crazy how these three smells can make everything smell different each time you smell them. So I'm going to dive into the Inspiro first. Okay, that gave me a floral and a coconut flavor with the cooked agave. That's. I have no idea where that coconut came from. All right, let's hit the next one with this same nose here. Okay. That brings out this really nice caramel note. Cooked agave, of course, but now I get the taste of like, vanilla bean. Like a vanilla bean. Like ice cream. Not. Not ice cream, but the vanilla taste that you pick up in a tequila. But now this smells fruity. Okay, so still don't know on that one. That one could be coconut. That could be fruit of some kind. It'd have to be like a dark fruit. Okay, back to that wood. The wood brings out a smoke and a minerality note and just amplifies that barrel taste in there. Did the same there. Makes this one really oaky, really woody. Okay, last one. This one I'm pretty sure is caramel. That one. Second one I know is a wood of some kind. Yeah. It takes that from being this really nice, woody anejo with an amazing tequila flavor to a caramel bomb. You get agave, caramel, and a little bit of wood, and that. That smells like coffee. I pick up caramel and this woody note and the agave. But when you come back to the nose of this one, it smells like coffee for some reason. So the further away, it's more caramelly up close, more coffee. So let's. First, I want to say thanks for these two tequilas to be here. I want to say thanks to inspiro for sending me this tequila back some time ago. And I want to thank Nueve Uno for sending me this tequila back time ago as well. These are also two tequilas that I purchased on a regular basis because they're so good. So thanks to you guys, let's do the big reveal of what these are. So what we're going to untape them first. Number 10. We've got number 51. And we've got number 58. So in case you didn't see those, I'm going to hold those up in front of the screen here. That way you can see them. Okay, now I'm going to go this handy dandy, trusty book. This has everything from the nosing kit in it. And we're going to go to this section that gives the numbers. The first one was number. Number 10. Number is number 10 is caramel.
[00:05:06] So there you go. That one dead on. I knew that one was caramel. The next One is number 51. 51 I said was wood. 51 is oak.
[00:05:18] So it has like this sawdust smell and just like a smoky wood smell. So obviously that is the smell of oak. And the Last one's number 58. 8:58 is vanilla. That thing was all over the place for me. At one point it smelled like coconut. At one point it smelled floral. It's amazing how it influenced the tequila, but also how the tequila influenced it. So what's my biggest takeaway from today? The tequila didn't change, but the aromas were already there. But changing my ability to recognize those and how much the smell of those aromas actually changed the way the tequila tasted and smelled. It's. This whole thing is not about becoming a professional sommelier. It's about. And it's not about trying to sound fancy. It's just about training my nose to understand more about what's in the glass. The more I do this series, the more I start noticing the details in tequila that maybe I have missed before. So now I want to hear from you. How many of those aromas would you been able to correctly identify blind? Did you get all three? Did you only get one? Or would you have completely stuck out like I probably did a few months ago where I couldn't get any of them? Drop your scores in the comments below. If you're enjoying this series, make sure you hit that subscribe button because the next one I'll try with some really mysterious aromas. I'll tell my wife to pull something really crazy to see if we can guess that I'm just really having fun learning about this stuff and trying to train my nose and hopefully it helps you. And if you want to learn more about tequila, make sure you check out the tequila report. I'm excited about being a reviewer on the report and working with them, and I think it's one of the biggest and best Tequila newsletters in the world right now. I was just told there's more than 62,000 subscribers. You'll get your Tequila news, your interviews, your reviews, some industry insight and more delivered strategy directly into your inbox. And best of all, it is completely free. So Visit the Tequila Report.com, subscribe. Sign up today. Thanks for watching. See you on the next time I try to train my crazy nose. Enjoy some great Tequila Cheers, folks.
