What tequila goes with

Tequila is distilled from the blue agave from Mexico. Blanco goes into the bottle like that, reposado spends months on wood and anejo years.

Blanco keeps the agave itself: peppery, vegetal, with citrus. That is the tequila for a margarita and for dishes with lime and chili.

Reposado and añejo pick up vanilla and caramel from the cask and come closer to what whisky does. Pour these neat, in a small glass.

How to serve it

Glass

Neat in a narrow tulip glass; mixed in a tumbler with ice.

Temperature

Neat at room temperature, mixed well chilled.

Neat or mixed

Blanco in the mix, reposado and añejo neat. Salt and lime belong with lesser tequila; good tequila doesn’t need them.

What it goes with

• ceviche
• taco with grilled meat
• guacamole and tortilla chips
• grilled prawns
• grilled corn on the cob
• spicy salsa
• lime tart

This applies to the type as a whole. What an individual bottle does is on the page of that bottle.

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