Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] People always talk about floral notes in tequila. What do floral notes actually smell like? Today I got a couple of floral notes that I'm going to do blind. And I've got a couple of tequilas that I always say have a lot of floral notes to them. Today we're going to use the Empre Vivo tequila, which is an amazing tequila and another amazing tea that we're going to dive into. La Puga high proof. Both of these are highland agaves. And highland agaves always to me seem to have more flavors, floral notes to them, brighter citrus and floral. And my wife pulled out a couple of the vials from the sensory nosing kit that I have. I've been working really hard on trying to learn all of these different scents by smelling them. Two of them here on the stick. And I'm going to try to identify what flower note I have on this little stick and see how it affects the nose and the taste of the tequila that I have. This is episode number four of the nosing class. So let's dive into this first one.
[00:00:58] Definitely a flower. It's one that I actually referenced a lot, I think, I think this is the flower of an orange tree. So I think this is orange blossom. So let's see if. Oh, holy cow. So outside of the cooked agave in the La Puga 110, I can literally pick up that floral note. It smells exactly the same as this one. Let's see if I can find that in the vivo. Actually more so in the vivo has this really strong, like orange, citrus smell to it as well. And this smell here, if. If I'm wrong on this, I'm gonna feel really crazy because that's exactly the smell that I get in this one here. So let, let's. Let's see how that it affects the taste.
[00:01:42] Okay, so when you do this with the nose, like, it changes what the tequila tastes like. It's. That's crazy. Like, I would never have tasted that much floral notes in that tequila. Although I knew, like I said it was floral going in this one. I did not. This one has a great cooked agave sweetness. So I pick up the note a little bit in the nose, but definitely not in the flavor. The vivo. Outstanding. Okay, so let's see if we can identify this other floral note.
[00:02:11] And I have no idea what that is. It smells really good. It almost smells like, like a grape, but really clean. Smells like a fabric softener that my wife uses.
[00:02:22] So. So let's see if we can find that in this.
[00:02:26] No, that smell does not reside in this tequila. So let's see if it affects the taste at all.
[00:02:33] It did change the taste a little bit from the first one. It gives you a really clean taste or a clean flavor in there. Let's try the vivo.
[00:02:43] Okay, so this one here, this. This smell resides in this tequila as well. I think this one is so much more floral. It almost brings out like a grape. Like a green grape smell. But I.
[00:02:55] This really clean flower is. Is very present in the vivo. Okay, so let's dive into the taste.
[00:03:02] Wow, what a great experiment. The cooked agave is there, but this. Whatever this flower is literally sits right in this glass as well. So let's. Let's see what these are. Let's see what the smells I have are. And let's start with the second one first. The second One is number 21. Can you see the 21 on there? Okay. And then let's go to the nosing kit.
[00:03:23] 21 is.
[00:03:25] It's Jasmine. Okay, So I don't know that I could pull out the smell of jasmine. It's a flagrant flower known for its delicate, alluring, floral aroma. Uh, it's. It's in a lot of wines. It's found in the. In the compounds. And grapes. So maybe that's where that grape note smell that I got from it. Um, it's. That. That is really cool. How so? I would say that sometimes I say the grape, you know, that I smell grapes or I smell like a. A green grape or a purple grape. I'm going to say that I'm smelling. I'm actually smelling jasmine in this tequila. Now, I did not get that in the la pulga. So let's see what this one is. This one is number eight. See that number eight? Let's go see what number eight is.
[00:04:12] Number eight is orange flower. Okay, so the orange got me there.
[00:04:19] It's. I've been in, like, a citrus field where there's orange trees and when they're blooming, and I've smelled this before. It's a hallmark of aromatic grape varietals. It's a naturally expressed floral profile, Often complements notes of ripe stone, fruit and citrus.
[00:04:37] So. So this one. Both of these are citrusy tequilas. You can pick up that citrus note in them. So to get that orange. That orange flower and then find that in the taste.
[00:04:48] Definitely there. So that's really cool. It's amazing how that jasmine, now that I know what that smell is, it just jumps out. It's so strong. But that orange blossom is right there as well. So if, if you haven't tried something like this and you're really wanting to learn some of those smells, these nosing kits and, and playing around with different tequilas is just really pretty cool. Like, I'm having a good time doing it. I hope it transfers over in a video as well. So thanks for watching. We'll do another one of these in a couple of weeks. I've got a bunch of things to still learn and try to identify in smells that translate over to taste. So drop your thoughts in the comments about these two tequilas. Two absolutely amazing tequilas for me, so I'm glad I picked them for tonight's video. Cheers. Have a great night.
