{"id":1368,"date":"2010-12-03T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:36:33","slug":"bargain-battle-6-el-ultimo-agave-reposado-tequila-vs-hacienda-viejo-reposado-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Bargain Battle 6: El Ultimo Agave reposado vs. Hacienda Vieja reposado (episode 59) tequila review"},"content":{"rendered":"


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How long can one King reign, friends?\u00a0 In this harrowing taste-off our YEAR-LONG CHAMPION, El Ultimo Agave<\/strong> goes head to head with upstart challenger, Hacienda Vieja<\/strong>.\u00a0 Lately the EUA repo has been annoying Th\u2019 Lip<\/strong> with its over-oaked spiciness.\u00a0 How will it fare against a brand with some great credibility? (Hacienda Vieja<\/strong> is made by the same family who originally distilled the mighty Cazadores <\/strong>brand!)
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This battle was won quite handily by El Ultimo Agave<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Hacienda Viejo had a strange, \u201cdistant\u201d feature to its taste profile.\u00a0 It seemed that all of the interest and complexity lay in the distant reaches \u2013 high above the palate(!)\u00a0 There were nice tastes of mint intermingled with lesser pleasing notes of acetone and a sort of sour \u201ccurl\u201d at the end.\u00a0 Combine these elements with the strange trick of having all of those tastes taking place in the upper 40% of the palate spectrum and you have 60% of missed opportunity.\u00a0 This repo DID have a spicy and long-lasting finish (surprisingly) but what it took to get there was both confusing and frustrating.<\/p>\n

El Ultimo Agave<\/strong> reposado on the other hand remains a solid bargain bottle.\u00a0 For approximately $15 it brings a solid platform of sweet oak (if over-oaked a bit) with big notes of clove and star anise.\u00a0 It\u2019s saving grace amid this wash of thick, ham-handed flavors is its central AGAVE core which comes through pealing like a courtyard bell in a Mexican plaza at 5:00 A.M.\u00a0 Challengers beware- this is your WAKE-UP CALL!<\/p>\n

Is there no agave warrior mighty enough to vanquish El Ultimo Agave<\/strong>?\u00a0 Stay tuned for Bargain Bottle Battle 7<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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How long can one King reign, friends?\u00a0 In this harrowing taste-off our YEAR-LONG CHAMPION, El Ultimo Agave goes head to head with upstart challenger, Hacienda Vieja.\u00a0 Lately the EUA repo has been annoying Th\u2019 Lip with its over-oaked spiciness.\u00a0 How will it fare against a brand with some great credibility? (Hacienda Vieja is made by … Continue reading Bargain Battle 6: El Ultimo Agave reposado vs. Hacienda Vieja reposado (episode 59) tequila review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[225],"tags":[77,78,91,104,354,127,166,506,187,193,213,218],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show","tag-drinking","tag-drunk","tag-el-ultimo-agave","tag-funny","tag-hacienda-vieja","tag-lippy","tag-reposado","tag-reviews","tag-steely-dan","tag-tequila","tag-video","tag-whisperer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tequilawhisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}