Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] This isn't just a ton of tequila. This is Lost Lore's first ever tohona release. And it tells you exactly where this brand is heading. Today we're going to break down the Lost Lore Tojono Blanco. A tequila built on ancestral methods, intentional choices, and some bold agave flavor. As you know, on here, Lost Laura is one of my favorite brands and one of my favorite stories of how Arturo and Sarah Llamas are bringing back their family tradition that was almost lost. And. And they're doing it with my friend Sergio Cruz at NOM 1414, where they make some of the best tequila out there. Now, there are other tequilas have been made with a roller mill. So this is their first one where they're going to use the tona. The tona production is slower, it's more expensive, it's far less efficient than the roller mill. So when a brand chooses to make a tona as a release, this is something they're doing as a statement to show that they can make fantastic ancestral style tequila. Okay, let's talk about how this is made. Lost floor tequila, always highland blue Weber agave. It's only thing they use for this tequila. It's cooked in their brick ovens really slow, around 50 hours. That even caramelization onto that agave from there, Stone tahona wheel extraction. This isn't blended with any roller mill juice. This is just straight tahona extracted. This is a unaged blanco. It is bottled at 86 proof or 43 ABV to hold it. Extraction keeps more fibers, more oils and more minerals, which gives the tequila a richer texture with a deeper complexity than most of the modern blancos. This tequila is made the hard way on purpose. All right, let's get it in the bottle. As you can see, not a fresh pop. I've already tried it. I purchased this bottle from the tequila shop.net I was really excited to get to try this tahona. I love Las Flores tequila. So I really wanted to see the difference in how the regular tequila tasted to this tono. It's worked out great on the nose. You get cooked agave. You get fresh citrus, like a zest, maybe some lime peel.
[00:02:01] It's very earthy. You get that almost like concrete, wet concrete or earthy smell.
[00:02:09] There's also a lot of like a spice, maybe a cracked pepper.
[00:02:14] There's a, a light.
[00:02:17] It's like a, a herbal note, maybe like a.
[00:02:25] Maybe like fennel.
[00:02:28] It does. It's very clean smelling. It's very agave forward smelling, which is really awesome. Okay, let's dive in.
[00:02:40] Great coup agave.
[00:02:41] Nice white pepper.
[00:02:44] There's a lot of minerality. It has a really creamy texture. There's a little bit of that citrus, like oily citrus. There's wet stone notes. That white pepper, it's not like really warm. At 86, I would have never guessed it if I didn't know that it was a higher proof. The mouth feel is really nice. It's really viscosity, oily. Uh, it's all the things you want from tequila. Let's see one more.
[00:03:13] Finish is clean. It has like a dry note to it and then just lingering agave, cooked agave sweetness with that mineralities there. And a nice little pepper spice that kind of heats up a little bit in the back of your mouth and it just kind of hangs on there. Leaves your palate just kind of enjoying that. Sipping this neat is the way I would drink it. I'm sure if you like it over a cube, it'd be great for that too. It would re, you know, make a margarita shine or a Paloma really shine. Using a tequila with this much agave flavor. Lost Thor Tahona Blanco didn't do this just as a trend. They were confident that this was going to be a really nice change within their production to create another bold flavor tequila, which they are fantastic at. They have so many different single barrels and all of these experiments in tequila that every one of them seems to be a winner. Or at least they don't show us the ones that weren't. If you love a mineral driven blanco, that's a little bit higher proof. This one's definitely for you. If you enjoy tequila content that focus on how it's made and not hype, hit the like button. Subscribe. Drop me a comment and tell me, are you team Tona or are you team Roller Mill? Let me know in the comments below. Thanks for watching my videos.
