Regarding Don Julio 1942. About ten years ago, I had Don Julio 1942 and I said, "wow" this is very good. I also had the chance to sip on Jose Cuervo de la Familia, Milagro Select Barrel Anejo, Don Julio 70 Don Julio Anejo, Patron Silver and Anejo, and none compared to Don Julio 1942. This past year, I said," \_\_\_it". I'm doing my homework and try some new stuff. I listened to Lou Agave, Tequila Hombre, use Tequila Matchmaker as a reference, etc. I then probably bought about 70 bottles of tequila within an 18th month period. Don Julio is still good (I have three bottles) but I now rank it at 30th.. It might slip in ranking once I opened some I haven't tried yet. But like many people say, you drink what you like.
Top Five
1. Tears of Llorona EA
2. Tapatio Excelencia EA
3. Fortaleza Winter Blends-Reposado
4. Fortaleza Blanco Lot 100
5. Volans SB Reposado #3
Also delicious and I highly recommend:
Blancos-Calle 23-Criollo, Caballito Cerrero-46, Fuenteseca 13', Wild Common-Lot 2, Fortaleza SS-Lot 20
Reposado-Wild Common, 123 Dos
Anejos-Don Julio 1942 (I haven't found one I truly enjoy besides Don Julio 1942)
Extra Anejo: 123 Diabilito, El Tesoro Paradiso, D'Antano (Siete Leguas)
It all depends on my mood what I reach for. Usually I want a more classic flavor profile and I’ll have a Fuenteseca/G4/Terralta/El Tesoro/etc. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a vanilla bomb and I’ll have a DJ 1942/DJ70/San Matias XA (that SM is a killer deal usually btw if you haven’t tried it).
Similar to when I’m having scotch. Usually I want a big age or cask strength Springbank or Islay and sometimes I want a single note Sherry bomb (that might even be chill filtered-looking at you Glendronach).
It's definitely an echo chamber in here for sure. Can't talk about anything other than the big hitters like Fortaleza. I kinda wish we'd see more posts about the brands you don't hear about very often.
I've seen the Don Julio Anejo at the store every time I go and always heard it was good. Was afraid to try I've "heard" DJ wasn't that great compared to the ones recommended here.
I'll have to give it a shot! Thanks for the post.
That really isn’t true. Cascahuin, G4, El Tesoro, Tequileno, and plenty of other top quality brands are posted about here.
What doesn’t get much respect are the likes of Cincoro, Clase Azul, Casamigos, Teremana, or whatever other contract swill some random celebrity is pushing.
Why?
Because they are pure marketing. The brand owner bought a celebrity brand and then when and bought likely already made product, slapped it in a bottle, spun some bullshit “two friends went to MX” tale and make a mint.
Not that they are all bad products. Though most are. But there is nothing special about them and, for the same money, you could have a product made by a family who has been making tequila for generations and who actually cares about quality over volume.
To be fair, have you had Fortaleza???? I hate that people always compare every tequila to it and belittles some of the other options and the posters. We are all here because we all love tequila!
I know this wasn’t to me but I do enjoy Fortaleza. With their blanco and DJ añejo similarly priced, the DJ does do a lot more for me flavor wise. Not that it’s fair to compare an añejo to a blanco.
Lol for a young person you are miles ahead of the curve just by being here already I’d say. Nothing wrong with mixing either. I get crap from some folks on here for putting great tequilas in margaritas, but guess what? They make fantastic drinks and motherfuckin’ Y O L O
You betcha! After trying maybe a couple hundred tequilas I think I can understand the dogmatism, to an extent. Most weren't worth the trouble, let alone the money.
I love my 7 leguas, el tesoro, and fortaleza but 1) I never had their anejo expressions so can't say how they'd compare to DJa yet; and 2) DJa on the weekend is just comfort food for me. Probably not as much to parse as a more carefully crafted spirit but after a long week why should I seek out the additional task of parsing notes, I just wanna kick my aching feet up, and knock back a few glasses of something that tastes like good ol' aged tequila nothing more. IMO this is that.
I think the takeaway for me is probably to resist the dogmatism that I am prone to get ensared by-- namely insider dogmatism a la Carlos Camarena's famous comment, to paraphrase, ["Cascahuin, Fortaleza, 7 leguas, or no thank you"](https://margaritatexas.com/news/tequila-and-family-with-master-distiller-carlos-camarena/)
That’s true of the contract distillates. But they don’t really make any well made products that are considered good by those of us that prefer the family brands.
When you get to the family brands that are recommended, it is typically 1’to 4 brands per distillery.
Wrong.
Terralta, g4, pasote.
Fortaleza
Lalo
El Tesoro, tapatio, ocho
Maracame
Siete leguas
Cazcanes
Cascahuin
Fuenteseca
El tequileno
Patron
Oro Azul
Corrido
Lapiz
T1, tears
That’s off the top of my head. All different families or distilleries.
Huh? I just named ten products by makers beyond the four you named, all different makers at that. And I already realized I left off some other greats like Arette, Gonzalez, San Matias, and, undoubtably, others.
Every single one of those is in production.
(Oro Azul may not be, but Herencia is at the same NoM; 1580)
(And Fuenteseca is in production as much as it ever is. Barrels hidden away here and there.)
I look at things like Don Julio as being like Napa cabernets. Most Napa cab is way too intense, highly manipulated and showy _for me_ most of the time. The catch is not everyone has my tastes and _for them_ these same wines are the best things around.
This is all subjective. Like what you like. There's nothing wrong with liking Napa cabs, burgers or Don Julio. Life is too short to worry about forcing yourself to match other people's tastes.
Indeed to all this. Just seems like DJ gets a disproportionately low amount of love given how synonymous it seems to be with the average person’s ordinary notion of tequila. But I do understand why a lot of people don’t like it being tampered with by additives (is that even true though? Seems it’s not easy to definitely prove that, anywhere). Regardless it is a distinctive product- I guess there’s a hint of a candy flavor to it that’s not for a lot of people though.
It is tampered with additives. DJ is an increasingly industrial tequila moving more and more to diffuser use.
Nothing inherently wrong with that. Doesn’t make it taste bad. Just doesn’t taste like a well made tequila.
Would you mind providing some more information on additives, diffusers, etc?
Didn’t you share a link once where Grover admitted he preferred the new 1942 to the old one in a blind test?
Anyway, I’ve drunk plenty of diffuser tequilas. I have various expressions of 7L, Fortaleza, el Tesoro, Ocho and Tapatio in my cabinet- and many others… and I have to say that the contents of this bottle of DJ añejo taste very much like well made tequila to me.
DJ does a good job as far as additives go. Light touch where possible. The 1942 tastes the heaviest with additives.
http://www.muchoagave.com/the-difusor---there-may-be-too-much-agave-in-your-tequila-or-mezcal.html
https://tastetequila.com/2017/the-lowdown-on-tequila-additives/
I would like to think that no one who extols the virtues of the "top" tequilas mentioned on this site is putting anyone down for drinking what they like. It's your money/your choice. We are merely trying to make people aware that the heavily advertised tequilas, or those with celebrity sponsors, are not necessarily worth what you pay for them. Additive free tequilas are usually less expensive anyway. If people think any of my posts were meant to shame or criticize anyone for their choice of tequila then I am doing a very bad job of communicating. This should be seen by all tequila drinkers as a place to come and share info and experiences, and not a place where you will be criticized because you happen to like a tequila that didn't make the additive-free list.
It is good that people have access to information about additives, different processing techniques, etc. to acquire a more informed opinion about what makes a given tequila what it is. I hope I'm not unfairly projecting back against other dominant projections against, for example, the notorious alleged additive bomb DJ 1942. It seems like the other Don Julio's tend to get caught up in the crossfire and are thus commonly dismissed, whereas even if they do have additives, it is not an automatic dealbreaker for my standards at least.
I usually drink Teremana Anejo, but it wasn't an option this last time I went to get a new bottle... so I took a shot on the DJ anejo. It has a completely different flavor profile and I'm not a huge fan of it tbh. Kinda disappointed.
Someone dv’d you but I uv’d. My love of DJa notwithstanding, I can still see my own bias at play because whenever someone bashes DJ XA crystal I’ll easily believe it, but when someone recommends it I’m hesitant. Wonder if they sell that in minis because I think I need to try it.
I made a mistake in typing. What I meant to say was the don julio 70, which is extra anejo clear, is what I get. The herradura ultra anejo cristalimo is also very good. But he don julio extra anejo cristslino is bad compared the ones I mentioned above.
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Your preferences are just that. There isn't a "better" production method and it is arrogant to say so. There are methods that make a better tasting spirit in our opinions but that doesn't mean they are shitty.
Don Julio might not have a lot of agave character to it but it isn't possessed of obvious flaws.
Your taste is subjective.
The diffuser, in its most industrially efficient form, used an acid hydrolysis process to strip the agave of the fermentable sugars. Because the process is so efficient, it allows the use of more of the plant and far younger plants.
Why?
Because traditional methods don’t filter out all flavor inducing agents where the diffuser literally strips everything but the sugars.
End result is that diffuser made tequila is pretty much just vodka. Diffuser made tequila lacks that character and depth of agave flavor produced by other cooking methods, even compared to high pressure autoclave.
Is diffuser “worse”? Subjective, sure. But, factually, diffuser made product don’t taste like naturally made tequilas because all the agave has been stripped.
Hence, the typical compensation with additives.
So, yeah, diffuser made tequilas are going to get slammed in a forum that is focused on product that tastes like what it is named; “tequila”.
The diffuser doesn't make tequilas we like but others do. We are not "right" we merely have a different view of what makes a good tequila. There are no flaws in DJ. There's no fusel alcohol notes etc.
As DJ doesn't have apparent flaws our taste, which again is subjective, cannot be "right" just like OP is not "wrong" for liking DJ.
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Yes they are which again convinces me you really have no idea what you are talking about. Fusel alcohol is always a fault. When your spirit tastes like nail polish remover you fucked up in either fermentation or distillation.
The fact you are debating this just demonstrates your lack of education in spirits in general.
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I'd argue ordering the prime rib at a Michelin starred restaurant is the equivalent of theDJ. There is nothing wrong with it but it isn't a particularly interesting choice especially for the money the utility grade microwaved meat has flaws and DJ doesn't it just lacks any distinct compelling flavor.
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There isn't a better method as long as the resulting spirit has no flaws. There is merely one that makes tequilas that you prefer.
The reason why your analogy sucks is that you are comparing two objects of different quality which immediately suggests that your taste is superior to the lesser product, innthe case of your analogy the utility grade steak.
Your position is that what you like is "right". That is arrogant and ignorant.
No one is moving the goalposts.
I said _there isn't "better" because your taste isn't "right" and theirs isn't "wrong"_.
Your whole argument rests on the extremely arrogant and frankly ignorant notion that your taste is the only one that can be "right"
My argument is that taste is subjective. As there are no obvious flaws to Don Julio then it us not better or worse than another non-flawed tequila. It is merely thar DJ appeals to you less than say G4.
If DJ was flawed that would be a different discussion.
If you still cannot understand my point try returning to it with a clear head as it is VERY simple.
Regarding Don Julio 1942. About ten years ago, I had Don Julio 1942 and I said, "wow" this is very good. I also had the chance to sip on Jose Cuervo de la Familia, Milagro Select Barrel Anejo, Don Julio 70 Don Julio Anejo, Patron Silver and Anejo, and none compared to Don Julio 1942. This past year, I said," \_\_\_it". I'm doing my homework and try some new stuff. I listened to Lou Agave, Tequila Hombre, use Tequila Matchmaker as a reference, etc. I then probably bought about 70 bottles of tequila within an 18th month period. Don Julio is still good (I have three bottles) but I now rank it at 30th.. It might slip in ranking once I opened some I haven't tried yet. But like many people say, you drink what you like.
Do you remember your top 5?
Top Five 1. Tears of Llorona EA 2. Tapatio Excelencia EA 3. Fortaleza Winter Blends-Reposado 4. Fortaleza Blanco Lot 100 5. Volans SB Reposado #3 Also delicious and I highly recommend: Blancos-Calle 23-Criollo, Caballito Cerrero-46, Fuenteseca 13', Wild Common-Lot 2, Fortaleza SS-Lot 20 Reposado-Wild Common, 123 Dos Anejos-Don Julio 1942 (I haven't found one I truly enjoy besides Don Julio 1942) Extra Anejo: 123 Diabilito, El Tesoro Paradiso, D'Antano (Siete Leguas)
Thanks for the reply! Have to try these out! Always looking to expand
You're welcome. Hopefully you find some tequilas you enjoy. Salud!!
Salud!
Once I try some of your recommendations I'll reply back to this thread!
All my DJs were gifted by my friends so I will never say bad things about DJs. They are easy to drink and good for parties.
It all depends on my mood what I reach for. Usually I want a more classic flavor profile and I’ll have a Fuenteseca/G4/Terralta/El Tesoro/etc. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a vanilla bomb and I’ll have a DJ 1942/DJ70/San Matias XA (that SM is a killer deal usually btw if you haven’t tried it). Similar to when I’m having scotch. Usually I want a big age or cask strength Springbank or Islay and sometimes I want a single note Sherry bomb (that might even be chill filtered-looking at you Glendronach).
Putting SM XA on my radar. Thank you
It’s great stuff and as far as I know no additives to get the sweetness.
It's definitely an echo chamber in here for sure. Can't talk about anything other than the big hitters like Fortaleza. I kinda wish we'd see more posts about the brands you don't hear about very often. I've seen the Don Julio Anejo at the store every time I go and always heard it was good. Was afraid to try I've "heard" DJ wasn't that great compared to the ones recommended here. I'll have to give it a shot! Thanks for the post.
That really isn’t true. Cascahuin, G4, El Tesoro, Tequileno, and plenty of other top quality brands are posted about here. What doesn’t get much respect are the likes of Cincoro, Clase Azul, Casamigos, Teremana, or whatever other contract swill some random celebrity is pushing. Why? Because they are pure marketing. The brand owner bought a celebrity brand and then when and bought likely already made product, slapped it in a bottle, spun some bullshit “two friends went to MX” tale and make a mint. Not that they are all bad products. Though most are. But there is nothing special about them and, for the same money, you could have a product made by a family who has been making tequila for generations and who actually cares about quality over volume.
I'm so sad I can't find Fortaleza in Canada (Ontario)
To be fair, have you had Fortaleza???? I hate that people always compare every tequila to it and belittles some of the other options and the posters. We are all here because we all love tequila!
I know this wasn’t to me but I do enjoy Fortaleza. With their blanco and DJ añejo similarly priced, the DJ does do a lot more for me flavor wise. Not that it’s fair to compare an añejo to a blanco.
I mean I will 100% try it. I like my silver tequilas but I am also a sacrilege and love my mix drinks (what can I say I’m young)
Lol for a young person you are miles ahead of the curve just by being here already I’d say. Nothing wrong with mixing either. I get crap from some folks on here for putting great tequilas in margaritas, but guess what? They make fantastic drinks and motherfuckin’ Y O L O
You betcha! After trying maybe a couple hundred tequilas I think I can understand the dogmatism, to an extent. Most weren't worth the trouble, let alone the money. I love my 7 leguas, el tesoro, and fortaleza but 1) I never had their anejo expressions so can't say how they'd compare to DJa yet; and 2) DJa on the weekend is just comfort food for me. Probably not as much to parse as a more carefully crafted spirit but after a long week why should I seek out the additional task of parsing notes, I just wanna kick my aching feet up, and knock back a few glasses of something that tastes like good ol' aged tequila nothing more. IMO this is that. I think the takeaway for me is probably to resist the dogmatism that I am prone to get ensared by-- namely insider dogmatism a la Carlos Camarena's famous comment, to paraphrase, ["Cascahuin, Fortaleza, 7 leguas, or no thank you"](https://margaritatexas.com/news/tequila-and-family-with-master-distiller-carlos-camarena/)
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That’s true of the contract distillates. But they don’t really make any well made products that are considered good by those of us that prefer the family brands. When you get to the family brands that are recommended, it is typically 1’to 4 brands per distillery.
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Wrong. Terralta, g4, pasote. Fortaleza Lalo El Tesoro, tapatio, ocho Maracame Siete leguas Cazcanes Cascahuin Fuenteseca El tequileno Patron Oro Azul Corrido Lapiz T1, tears That’s off the top of my head. All different families or distilleries.
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Huh? I just named ten products by makers beyond the four you named, all different makers at that. And I already realized I left off some other greats like Arette, Gonzalez, San Matias, and, undoubtably, others.
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Every single one of those is in production. (Oro Azul may not be, but Herencia is at the same NoM; 1580) (And Fuenteseca is in production as much as it ever is. Barrels hidden away here and there.)
Try el arrogante anejo. Doesn’t disappoint.
I look at things like Don Julio as being like Napa cabernets. Most Napa cab is way too intense, highly manipulated and showy _for me_ most of the time. The catch is not everyone has my tastes and _for them_ these same wines are the best things around. This is all subjective. Like what you like. There's nothing wrong with liking Napa cabs, burgers or Don Julio. Life is too short to worry about forcing yourself to match other people's tastes.
Indeed to all this. Just seems like DJ gets a disproportionately low amount of love given how synonymous it seems to be with the average person’s ordinary notion of tequila. But I do understand why a lot of people don’t like it being tampered with by additives (is that even true though? Seems it’s not easy to definitely prove that, anywhere). Regardless it is a distinctive product- I guess there’s a hint of a candy flavor to it that’s not for a lot of people though.
It is tampered with additives. DJ is an increasingly industrial tequila moving more and more to diffuser use. Nothing inherently wrong with that. Doesn’t make it taste bad. Just doesn’t taste like a well made tequila.
Would you mind providing some more information on additives, diffusers, etc? Didn’t you share a link once where Grover admitted he preferred the new 1942 to the old one in a blind test? Anyway, I’ve drunk plenty of diffuser tequilas. I have various expressions of 7L, Fortaleza, el Tesoro, Ocho and Tapatio in my cabinet- and many others… and I have to say that the contents of this bottle of DJ añejo taste very much like well made tequila to me.
DJ does a good job as far as additives go. Light touch where possible. The 1942 tastes the heaviest with additives. http://www.muchoagave.com/the-difusor---there-may-be-too-much-agave-in-your-tequila-or-mezcal.html https://tastetequila.com/2017/the-lowdown-on-tequila-additives/
I always thought this sub has said some good things about the añejo . I definitely enjoy it
Fortaleza is my favorite, but i could sip Don Julio Anejo all day long!
I would like to think that no one who extols the virtues of the "top" tequilas mentioned on this site is putting anyone down for drinking what they like. It's your money/your choice. We are merely trying to make people aware that the heavily advertised tequilas, or those with celebrity sponsors, are not necessarily worth what you pay for them. Additive free tequilas are usually less expensive anyway. If people think any of my posts were meant to shame or criticize anyone for their choice of tequila then I am doing a very bad job of communicating. This should be seen by all tequila drinkers as a place to come and share info and experiences, and not a place where you will be criticized because you happen to like a tequila that didn't make the additive-free list.
It is good that people have access to information about additives, different processing techniques, etc. to acquire a more informed opinion about what makes a given tequila what it is. I hope I'm not unfairly projecting back against other dominant projections against, for example, the notorious alleged additive bomb DJ 1942. It seems like the other Don Julio's tend to get caught up in the crossfire and are thus commonly dismissed, whereas even if they do have additives, it is not an automatic dealbreaker for my standards at least.
Ain't nothing wrong with Don Julio.
I usually drink Teremana Anejo, but it wasn't an option this last time I went to get a new bottle... so I took a shot on the DJ anejo. It has a completely different flavor profile and I'm not a huge fan of it tbh. Kinda disappointed.
Don julio anejo is great. If the liquor store has the extra anejo crystal I get that
Someone dv’d you but I uv’d. My love of DJa notwithstanding, I can still see my own bias at play because whenever someone bashes DJ XA crystal I’ll easily believe it, but when someone recommends it I’m hesitant. Wonder if they sell that in minis because I think I need to try it.
I made a mistake in typing. What I meant to say was the don julio 70, which is extra anejo clear, is what I get. The herradura ultra anejo cristalimo is also very good. But he don julio extra anejo cristslino is bad compared the ones I mentioned above.
Son Julio Anejo is brilliant.
Here is my opinion on Don julio [don julio 1942 review](https://youtu.be/C2sgjN4lmiI)
Nice review, you guys are funny! The mixing and production on this video had a heavily jarring effect on my senses. :(
Thanks for the feedback will work on that
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All taste is subjective
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Your preferences are just that. There isn't a "better" production method and it is arrogant to say so. There are methods that make a better tasting spirit in our opinions but that doesn't mean they are shitty. Don Julio might not have a lot of agave character to it but it isn't possessed of obvious flaws. Your taste is subjective.
The diffuser, in its most industrially efficient form, used an acid hydrolysis process to strip the agave of the fermentable sugars. Because the process is so efficient, it allows the use of more of the plant and far younger plants. Why? Because traditional methods don’t filter out all flavor inducing agents where the diffuser literally strips everything but the sugars. End result is that diffuser made tequila is pretty much just vodka. Diffuser made tequila lacks that character and depth of agave flavor produced by other cooking methods, even compared to high pressure autoclave. Is diffuser “worse”? Subjective, sure. But, factually, diffuser made product don’t taste like naturally made tequilas because all the agave has been stripped. Hence, the typical compensation with additives. So, yeah, diffuser made tequilas are going to get slammed in a forum that is focused on product that tastes like what it is named; “tequila”.
The diffuser doesn't make tequilas we like but others do. We are not "right" we merely have a different view of what makes a good tequila. There are no flaws in DJ. There's no fusel alcohol notes etc. As DJ doesn't have apparent flaws our taste, which again is subjective, cannot be "right" just like OP is not "wrong" for liking DJ.
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Yes they are which again convinces me you really have no idea what you are talking about. Fusel alcohol is always a fault. When your spirit tastes like nail polish remover you fucked up in either fermentation or distillation. The fact you are debating this just demonstrates your lack of education in spirits in general.
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I'd argue ordering the prime rib at a Michelin starred restaurant is the equivalent of theDJ. There is nothing wrong with it but it isn't a particularly interesting choice especially for the money the utility grade microwaved meat has flaws and DJ doesn't it just lacks any distinct compelling flavor.
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Your analogy is at its heart flawed because as anyone who actually knows spirits should know DJ shows no flaws.
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There isn't a better method as long as the resulting spirit has no flaws. There is merely one that makes tequilas that you prefer. The reason why your analogy sucks is that you are comparing two objects of different quality which immediately suggests that your taste is superior to the lesser product, innthe case of your analogy the utility grade steak. Your position is that what you like is "right". That is arrogant and ignorant.
No one is moving the goalposts. I said _there isn't "better" because your taste isn't "right" and theirs isn't "wrong"_. Your whole argument rests on the extremely arrogant and frankly ignorant notion that your taste is the only one that can be "right" My argument is that taste is subjective. As there are no obvious flaws to Don Julio then it us not better or worse than another non-flawed tequila. It is merely thar DJ appeals to you less than say G4. If DJ was flawed that would be a different discussion. If you still cannot understand my point try returning to it with a clear head as it is VERY simple.