Mijenta will always have a very special place in my tequila journey.
My start into tequila (discounting the poor quality stuff I’d had early on in college) faced a big hurdle from the start 2 years ago – I’d fallen in love with the history, biology, and culture/s around it before I’d tried any good quality tequila out to see if I actually would like the flavors. The brand that most interested me was Mijenta, which remains one of my favorite tequila brands – I loved the brand’s mission and the story of its master distiller and blender, Ana María Romero Mena.
I started with Mijenta’s wonderfully unique, floral, agave-forward blanco. It was challenging, as tequila tends to be for those brand new to really exploring it. It took time & effort, but Mijenta opened the gateway to traditionally-made but also innovative tequila brands, master distillers, & distilleries for me. It opened up the doors to other brands that are now staples on my shelves.
In short, without Mijenta, I would have never taken the chance of delving into the vast world of tequila &, later, other mezcals &, just recently, sotol & other agave spirits.
I’ll always support Mijenta’s new exploration in agave spirits & projects of the Maestra, Ana María RomeroMena – They’re always high quality, unique, delicious, &, for me at least, pathbreaking.
I’m very much looking forward, in the midst of a lengthening & increasingly dour furlough/shutdown, to starting a new tasting journey into agave via Mijenta’s newest release, the Maestra Selection No. 2 Blanco, a blend of separately produced blancos using Blue Weber agave plants grown in all five of the tequila Denomination of Origin regions – Jalisco, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, & Tamaulipas.
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