Okay here’s a note about tequila and things you can read on
labels. Monarcha tequila does not say
anywhere on the bottle that it is 100% agave. By Mexican law, tequila must be at least 51% agave, and
for inexpensive brands, the other 49% is typically neutral grain spirit. What
is neutral grain spirit you might ask? Well,
it’s typically 190 proof corn distillate, the absolute cheapest spirit you can
produce on this continent. Another term that’s on this bottle is chill
filtered. Chill filtering is done to remove impurities and in the most cases remove a murkiness, but in general, it’s not used for a high-quality product. However, this is a bottom shelf supercheap
tequila so let’s see if a whiskey element will make it taste better.
Monarch tequila has very little fruit and agave flavor, and it has a dry finish. After 24 hours
there is a good amount of oak and flavors of vanilla, much smoother.
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After 48 hours the tequila had a fair amount of color and
got about is as good as it’s going to get. I left it in for several days and
kept checking it and while the wood does seem to continue to transfer some
flavor it is pretty much done after about 48 hours,
but I don’t think you can leave it in for too long. I’m not sure I can say this tequila got way better, but it certainly
improved. You don’t buy Monarcha to sip, you buy it to mix, and after the element, makes a pretty darn good margarita. Some of the bite smoothed out,
and the flavors matured closer to a reposado. If you served this blind to your friends, they would surely think this tequila
is at least $10 a bottle more than you paid.
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