Old vs New El Ultimo Agave Tequila Review | A $25 Budget Tequila Surprise

[00:00:00] What do you do when you're out at a liquor store and you find a dusty old bottle? For me, I've never been one that looks for really old bottles or does a lot of old bottle collecting, but I found this one out in a local liquor store, and I was pretty fired up because I really like this tequila made by my friend ileana Partita at NOM 1522A Hacienda Ora. She's one of the sweetest people on the planet and also one of the best tequila tequila makers that are out there. A woman that runs her distillery and also is the master distiller and really makes some fantastic tequila. So this bottle, it says right here, copyright 2011, and it has a LUAM number of 591. I don't know how to find what that means, but I do know that this is an older bottle than this brand new one that just kind of resurfaced not too long ago as a new brand with Ileana. I wanted to open these up and give them a try side by side. Now, I did find a really old bottle one time that I was excited about. When I brought it home, it just tasted like agave water. The seal had been broken and it really had lost all the flavor. This time it looks like the seal's still there. So let's give it a pop here. Corks in there. Good. Nice. All right, so here's the old one going in the pretty glass, and let's put the new one over here. Let's see if we can find a difference in the two. In the nose. This has got a nice cooked agave, some nice earthy minerality. [00:01:27] There's a little bit of a funky note. Not like that deep malolactic, but just like a nice little funk to it. Okay, let's jump to this one over here. Okay. A little funkier, a little bit of chocolate note and a nice cooked agave. Honestly, this one is more earthy, more kind of a rugged nose to it. Okay, let's jump into the taste. Nice cooked agave, nice sweetness. That minerality is really there. It has a ramped up pepper note in the finish. There's a little bit of celery and a little bit of grass in there. And I do find just a hint of the chocolate note in the finish before that pepper kind of heats up and really gets you. That. That's really nice. This is a nice tequila. So a nice old. Good find, right? All right, let's hit the new one. Cooked agave is great. A little bit more of that chocolate note a little bit more of a earthy minerality than vegetal minerality. Not like wet concrete or anything like that, but like a. Just a nice, earthy. Almost like the smell when you're digging in a garden. That. That earthy taste of that smell. There's also a little bit of that celery note there and just a. A little hint of that chocolate note as well. And the finish is a little softer in this one than it is in the older one. The finish in the older one kind of ramped up to a little more heat. You know, when you can find a tequila for $25, I think this El Ultimo cost. It's such a great budget brand with a really nice, sippable flavor that could go in any cocktail that you wanted to put it in. So I'm going to say to. In this, I'm going to go ahead and blend Eliana's version and the older version together and say, what's your favorite old bottle find that you found in a liquor store? Drop it in the comments. Let me know. Let me know if you've had either of these El Uo agaves. And if you haven't, you should. Iliana, thanks for making great tequila. And he, hey, know what you're drinking, everybody. Cheers.