Mis Amigos Chocolate Tequila

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All tequilas must be distilled twice to class as tequila officially, but Corralejo takes it one step further with a triple distillation method. The brand uses a copper pot still, then a column still method, and finally, through the copper pot one more time before bottling and selling its tequila. Mar Azul has taken hundreds of years of tradition and refined it to make the world’s best Tequila. Just as there are differences between “moonshine and fine sipping bourbon” there are differences between tequilas. We have found that when using 100% natural ingredients, we can consistently produce the finest quality tequila available today.

As if what's inside the bottle isn't good enough, the outside is studded with Swarovski crystals. (Courtesy of Casa Don Ramón) If you fancy indulging yourself this Easter but are looking for something more adult than a chocolate bar then The Bottle Club might have something for you. The company is offering selection of sweet delights on sale – from rich chocolate cream liqueurs to chocolate infused gin, whiskey, rum, and tequila – as well as artisan chocolate bars and hot drinks. Herradura’s Reposado Tequila Colección de la Casa Port is fermented naturally with wild yeast before being matured in hand-selected vintage Port casks from the Douro Valley in Portugal for two additional months. Another best-selling brand, Don Julio launched in 1942 and was named after Don Julio González, the brand’s first Jimador. Owned by spirits-giant Diageo, Don Julio is enjoyed by tequila lovers all over the world and is known for being a staple brand.

Clase Azul offers the sort of tequila you’ll buy as a present and then want to keep for yourself. It’s a brand that offers enjoyment the entire way through, from the buying process of choosing a unique bottle to the sipping of what’s inside. Cazcanes claims to use the “lost art of making tequila” to produce its spirit – a slightly different method to how most distillers create theirs. The brand’s name comes from the Cazcanes Indians, the only indigenous people of Mexico never conquered by the Spaniards. And its production method uses the original 300-year-old Indian recipe used when tequila was first made.

There are endless options for food pairings that work well with tequila. There are around 600 possible aromas to be found inside a bottle (in comparison to about 150 in a bottle of wine), which makes tequila the perfect spirit to enjoy alongside a wide variety of dishes. Not sure where to start? Try pairing your tequila with chorizo, dark chocolate, ceviche, or roasted tomato-based dishes. This Reposado is aged for three months in American oak ex-bourbon barrels. Expect vanilla sweetness, strong agave notes, and a hint of chocolate on the nose.Casa Dragones is a brand that focuses entirely on producing sipping tequilas that are both exceptional in quality and interesting to taste. Its ultra-premium, small-batch tequila comes in a numbered and hand-signed bottle. When it comes to the actual production of the spirit, the process isn’t any more straightforward. The harvested Piñas – the heart of the plant used to produce tequila – from the agave are steam-baked to bring out the sugar, which can then be fermented to produce alcohol. After cooking, the Piña is shredded to release the juice, which is then made into alcohol using yeast. It’s a premium brand that offers a unique tasting experience due to the aging process used, particularly its Reposado offering. The brand uses a time-honored distillation process to create its best-selling spirit and offers a crisp agave flavor and hints of citrus.

The Single Barrel Extra Añejo Tequila is an extremely rare bottle that’s renowned for being one of the best on the market. There are between 300-360 bottles produced per batch, aged in some of the finest, hand-selected, lightly charred French white oak barrels for four to five years. Dos Lunas started producing tequila after its founder, Richard C. Poe II, watched a group of people visibly cringe after drinking the spirit in a bar. The brand’s goal was to create delicious-tasting tequila that was enjoyable to drink. It uses a “cold filtration process,” believed to produce lighter-bodied, sweeter spirits. These days tequila and I don’t party together as much as we used to. It’s like that college friend you don’t catch up with very often, despite those years of being inseparable. When you do catch up, it’s always a night reminiscing about younger, carefree days when hangovers weren’t a thing. My bond with tequila is like that. Fortaleza’s Tequila Añejo is one of the best from an already high standard. It’s a highly-praised and perfectly-aged añejo, left to rest for 18 months in American oak barrels. The primary notes are caramel, vanilla, butterscotch, and cooked agave with secondary hints of pineapple, peach, orange blossom, nutmeg, and raisin in the nose.Patrón’s production team is made up of a tiny 30 people, who all combine their individual expertise to create one of the world’s most-loved tequilas. All of the brand’s creations are made at Hacienda Patrón, home to the distillery since 1989. This Manchester-based distillery really is big on experimentation, which makes for the most characterful Easter drinks offering. They’re the first to ever distil rum with ruby chocolate - known as the fourth kind of chocolate, with its vibrant reddish-pink colour and intense fruity berry taste - to give a brand-new Easter taste experience. La Adelita Extra Anejo has one of the more unique smell and taste profiles on the list. (Devin Berko)

And for those who want to throw the ultimate grown-up hunt this Easter, take a look at The Bottle Club’s range of bijou mini bottles to hide instead of chocolate eggs. It’s a popular choice that’s known for being worthy of far more than its price point would suggest. Mar Azul Chocolate uses only the finest cocoa beans harvested in the tropical regions near the equator. Using our unique processes Mar Azul Chocolate truly embodies a rich chocolate flavor.My roommate got home from work as I was pouring the second shot. He’s a tequila snob who frequently chases an anejo with Guinness. Equally suspicious of combining chocolate liqueur and tequila, he admitted that his personal drink of choice was similar in concept. After all, Guinness has a bit of a mocha undertone. Like me, he chose to sip instead of shoot it.