Buzzed Boomer researchers are on a constant quest to find the world’s best because, whatever it is, it’s likely to be great. We live in a big world so to be at the very top of the heap, well, we want some of that!
John Selby shared his recipe for the world’s best Old Fashioned in a recent post and so far no one has challenged him. And we thought it was a great Old Fashioned. So when we read that Avion Silver tequila is self-proclaimed as World’s Best Tasting Tequila, and has a 2019 Double Gold SIP Award as evidence, we wanted to do our own sipping. Our current favorite is the honey-smooth Clasa Azul. Tough competition.
“The Avion story begins in the small town of Jesus Maria, Mexico — a town and culture the Lopez family has cherished for generations. Here, single origin, rare blue agave is grown at the highest elevations and takes 7 to 10 years to reach maturity. After harvesting by hand, our agave is slow roasted in brick ovens from three days to perfectly caramelize and really the natural sweetness and rich flavors. Avion uses up to 30% more agave in each bottle, making us proudly inefficient as a tequila producer. This is the meticulous process that goes into creating the World’s Best Tasking Tequila.”
On to the tasting. We started with a chilled Avion in a chilled glass. It’s very good. We’re not able to distinguish “citrus-forward” and all that. We just noted that it was tasty. So we tried some on the rocks. Then another one on the rocks. Just to be sure, one more on the rocks. Yeah, it’s really good!
The Consejo Regulator del Tequila counted 1377 registered domestic bottled brands from 150 producers. And that count was awhile back. There may be more now. And that doesn’t count some 285 brands bottled internationally. To further validate the World’s Best Tasting Tequila claim we should probably sample the top 50 brands or so. As they say, back to the salt mines.
– Jet Cannon
