The scotch cask is really driving the bus here, it’s not a bad collaboration but I really don’t feel like the tequila is showing well.
Finally, a collaboration that actually takes on some character of the previous cask!!! Loads of Scotch here mid palette, it mingles really nicely with the sweetness already present in DJ’s house style. I 100% guarantee you could put this in front on any Scotch drinking and get a positive review. Nice collaboration, hopefully whoever dreamed this up has more to come.
A little bland and watered down but somewhat sold, with a lot of caramel. vanilla, sweet, oak, fruit and citrus...but considering the price.... forget it.
I love smokiness and french oak, so this was a winner all around for me.
Tasted at the before and after party at NW Agave Fest. Aromas of dried fruit, oak, agave predominate. In the mouth this is quite dry with some malted barley from the whiskey barrel and orange zest as well as agave and oak. Not over flavored by the double barreling I was surprised a bit by this and noted none of the diffuser funk that I have tasted with the blanco recently. Short dry finish holds this back in the rating.
Aroma : Vanilla and butterscotch. Small amount of oak. Taste : Agave, caramel, vanilla and butterscotch. There is some oak here as well. Light black pepper. This is a sweet Reposado profile, but it seems a little thin bodied. Finish : Medium length with more emphasis on oak and black pepper.
Lou gets brutally real about Don Julio 70th, and the entire concept of cristalinos.
Tequila net sales were up 36% in the first half of the fiscal year.
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Diageo’s Don Julio Tequila has smashed through the million-case sales barrier for the first time, Brand Champions data has revealed.
There are reasons to believe that Menezes' self-help plan is beginning to bear fruit. The US business is back in growth, after adding George Clooney's Casamigos tequila and a number of other brands to its cabinet.
Notably, Diageo has also been striving to augment its spirit-based alcohol portfolio through acquisitions. In June 2017, the company announced the acquisition of the fastest-growing premium tequila brand, Casamigos, in a deal worth $1 billion.
The multinational beverage company Diageo laid the first stone for the expansion of its Atotonilco, Jalisco, plant this week, part of a US $400-million investment announced in 2015 after it bought the Don Julio tequila brand.
At a time when tequila sales are booming both in the U.S. and internationally, and a flood of new brands continue to appear at retailers’ doors, it’s difficult to assemble a price assortment that sticks to value as the most important matter.
Patrón, which pioneered the U.S. market’s thriving luxury Tequila segment, is now facing competition from a bevy of high-end entrants including Don Julio, Avión, Casamigos and others.
Horrible as a Cristalino gimmick. Fake pine, vanilla, chocolate, fruit etc. An overly sugary finish... absolutely horrendous