Oh, wow, the gentleman's measure. We're back to Raffado pours, are you? Home for a Raffado. Not my tequila. Home for a Raffado. Okay, look. Well, thanks to Alicia, I had to open a new bottle of everything. Because she gave it away to, because she took all my celebrity tequila and then gave it away to the store and tried to cover her ass, but she doesn't know I know the truth. All right, once again, we have too many people in the room and this is going to be a muddy mess. No, this is good because, listen, this is a blind tasting episode, so our listeners can hear us sniff and gargle things as we like roast agave and lemon spritz and that gets really old, really fast. So the more voices we have, the more we can edit that around and make it maybe interesting. Maybe. Entirely too much tequila. There's so much tequila. Entirely too much tequila. And once again, Pat showed up, he was supposed to bring like six or eight, but we have 15. I grabbed them from the store also. Oh, so this was a group effort. So 14 and then I grabbed one from the store. Oh yeah, yeah, 15. Oh, I just remembered one we didn't pull. What? We're going to have to up this to 16. Oh, Jesus. Well, then we better get it started. Here we go. Hey, welcome back to Barrel to Bottle, The Binny's Podcast, your weekly dose of alcohol, Esoterica. This week, we're going to rag on some celebrities and their neo-colonial habits. Just kidding. Some of them actually are really supporting their communities and reinvesting in the communities and distilleries and employees. They have Mexico. Find out which. But yeah, you can do your own research for that. We are going to blind taste every celebrity tequila that we have currently in the store. When we do blind tastings, we are honest and we don't know what we are tasting. You're going to know what we're tasting because future Pat is going to say it, and we're going to cut it in. So you'll know what we're talking about. We don't know what we're talking about. It's impossible to not be honest when we're blind tasting, so sorry for all of the terrible things I'm about to say. Well, no, some of these are really good. Some of them in my experience aren't, but maybe tasting them blind, I'm going to have a different point of opinion. Cool. Producer Jim is going to blind pour these for us. I know the basket of goods that was chosen, but I'm going to be just as blind as you guys as far as what's coming around. All right. Who's blind tasting today? I'm Pat. My coffee's wearing off and I'm a little sweaty. We know, but I guess listeners didn't know. I'm glad you brought them into the fold. I'm Greg. I do communications at Binny's and I smell Pat. Right? We're all stuck in a small room here. I'm Chris and yes, I smell things. For a living. And unfortunately, that leads me to smell Pat all the more. I'm Jenna. I'm wishing I wasn't here right now and I do communications. Stockholm Syndrome. And Joe's back. Yeah. And I'm Joe. I'm back. Jim. Jim's in the room. Communications. I have my new cool boom mic. Yeah. My broadcast arm, it moves back and forth. It's very exciting. He's really giddy to be standing up and speaking into a microphone right now. When we got it yesterday, I was so excited. To paint a picture, Jim is standing behind a wall of wooden boxes. Dungeon master. You do look very dungeon mastery right now. I pointed that out. I'm like, I do. All right. He has poured our first sample, and future Pat is going to tell you what we have, but not us, right now. Number 1, Jaja Reposado. Okay. What do you guys think? Well, my first impression of the nose is strong herbal dill notes, almost like dill pickle. So what's that American wood? Well, yeah. I think it could be. I'm not getting as much dill, but it's definitely just a nice honeyed roasted agave type of flavor to it. Agreed. I think it's soft and sweet and it's got a little bit of that vegetable quality that makes it recognizable as agave. Yeah. But it still has some of that honey character on the end. I would guess this would be a Highland Tequila, not a Lowland because of that. It's not overly peppery or asparagus-y vegetal. It's got it in there, but there's a good sweet balance to it. I like the body on it. It's round, but it's still light and easy. It seems obvious to me that it's a Reposado. I think this is a really nice tequila. Oh, I didn't even think of that. Do we have all different kinds of- We do. There's a mix of Blanco, Repo, and Añejo. I thought maybe keep it all Blanco, but I think this is a better representation of what's available because all these different product lines have several different expressions. Yeah, I agree with- You think this is a Repo? Repo. I think this is a Repo. I think so too. I don't know. It's pretty sweet. I was going to say that that honey character you mentioned is very prominent on the palate. It almost tastes like bitter honey to me, like almonds and- Roger's not here. Roger's not even here and you want to have fun of honey. Old man candy. He's so proud of himself too. It smells like what I want my perfect margarita to smell like. Really? Just tequila? Just tequila. It has like a citrusy agave, I mean obviously agave but like honey agave, it smells citrusy. I bet it would be good in a margarita. I think this is really nice. I don't think this has additives in it. I don't think this has added sugar or glycerol. It's very naturally sweet if that is true. Yeah. Joe, do you think that this is sweetened? I think it is. I kind of do too. Okay. It's got like a suspiciously sweet pop to it. It does. I don't hate, but I feel like it's probably not natural. But they're allowed to do that, so play within the rules and the law is fine. When we find out what they are, will you know? I will generally know if it's been additive or not. Only a couple of them participate in the additive-free tequila program, but at least the labeling, that's like a voluntary thing. It does taste like it's aged in bourbon wood. Yeah. Big time. If it isn't what I think it is, then I think the sweetness comes from a different source, which we'll explain when we get to the reveals. Interesting. I like it though, even if it is sweet. I do like it, yeah. It's not that I don't like it, yeah. I enjoyed it. Jenna's doing her best to cheat because she blind tasted some of these with the women of Binny's Lunch and Learn. I'm looking at my notes. She has her notes. I feel like I know what this was aged in, but then I feel like I can't say it because I feel like that is cheating. Do you hazard a guess? I hazard a guess perhaps some sort of wine barrel, maybe a sherry cask. Pat, is that what you think the additive could be? If she is correct, then that's what it is. Then why don't you just guess what it is? She thinks it's Lobos 1707, which is a Reposado that sees partial aging in a PX sherry cask. That wouldn't explain the dill though. That would explain the honey nature though. I don't know. Nobody else got that dill note in the nose. I got more butterscotch. Yeah, I got more butterscotch. What do you have for lunch? Cashews. Not a dill sandwich, huh? Not pickled herring. We should be guessing celebs too. I'm not going to guess because I know what I pulled. I would need a list of celebs to even begin to guess. I can provide that for you. No, not the tequila. It's just the celebs. No, I think you ought to just throw celebs out there. He's like, well, this is Cary Grant's. Yeah, this is Betty White's tequila. All right. So what celeb is this? Soft and sweet, suspiciously sweet. Those are my tasting notes. Jack efron. John Bon Jovi. That's a wine. I'm trying to think. I'm not going to look at my list. So I'm going to actually guess. I'm going to take that list. I'm going to confiscate it, I think. As the dungeon master. Any ex-girlfriends of Justin Bieber have tequilas? I don't even know who every girlfriend's of. Jessica Parker. Are you thinking of Sarah Jessica Parker? That's a wine also, Joe. I don't know. Whiskey Hotline. All of Leonardo DiCaprio's exes have a 25-year age. Yes. Quilas is true. Can I have to cut that? Why do you have to cut it? It's literally true. He did just break up with one when she turned 25 like three months ago. We should all admire a man who steadfastly lives by a set of rules. That's all I'm going to say. Selena Gomez. Okay, Pat. Now future Pat, take us into the next one. Number two, Gran Coromino, Cristalino. Next up in the glass, this one's clear. That could mean Blanco. It could also mean Cristalino. Are there any Cristalinos in the running? Or whatever they call them? Possibly. Interesting. I'm really starting to like that style. I think people who listen to our Hereduras- Ruben Aceves... . esca episode definitely know that because, yeah. Smells nice. It's not too herbal on the nose. It's a little mild on the nose, but there's like this background of richness that I suppose Cristalino could be it. I would say just by the palette, there is such a round. Yeah, it's like a marshmallow. Rich. Yeah. Not sweet, but like plush. I feel like Wood had to be involved here. Still has a nice honeyed agave character in the finish. Yeah. There's a little hint of smokiness. I could be from the barrel even, maybe. I could be from the barrel, I think, yeah. I'm giving that a good plus plus. Pretty good tequila. That's pretty good. Yeah, it's nice and fat and chewy. It's a little hotter than the last one. Yeah, it's not as good as the first one. First one I gave a very good. Are we going to need to remind the audience of your rating scale? We can record that at the end. Just place it in whenever. Who's on the Cristalino bandwagon versus Blanco? I'm thinking this is Cristalino. It could be a Blanco with added sugar, but I think there's enough of specifically like vanilla barrel note type of character that I think it's a Cristalino. PS guys, no one can see you raise your hands. Oh yeah. That was me. I do. It was two of you. I do. I was going to speak, but someone else was speaking. I didn't want to be rude. You can just interrupt him. It's fine. Welcome to Barrel the Bottle, the Binny's Podcast. You've never listened to the show before? Rotating interruptions. The only podcast done in American Sign Language. All right. What are the other words for Cristalino? Because I know there's some other branded phrases. So Don Julio calls it Clara. They trademark Clara. So everybody else started calling it Cristalino. Maestro Rubel Diamante is a Cristalino. That was actually the first one. Herradora is just Añejo Ultra. But the broader industry classification now is Cristalino. What's Dragones called? They just call it Hoven. Hoven. Yeah. That's not really a Cristalino because it's a blending. Because it's Blanco with extra Añejo. Oh, well, that makes sense. Did you describe the fact that Cristalino is made through charcoal filtering? We didn't talk about that yet, but we probably ought to. So Cristalino is an aged tequila. There isn't a rule. It could be a Reposado, it could be Añejo, it could be an extra Añejo that then gets filtered through activated carbon of some kind, which is often just like powdery burnt up like coconut charcoal sometimes. It filters the color out, but the idea is it doesn't filter all of the flavor out. So you maintain aged character and flavor, but with a crystal clear color. Very much cosmetic, but it's super popular and they are really good when they're done. So who's the celeb on this one? Perry Farrell. That's a solid guess, Greg. That's Perry Farrell. I think it's Perry Farrell. I think it's Dobell. I don't know celebrities. Yeah. George Clooney. Is his tequila? Yeah. He makes tequila? That's the only one that's coming to mind right now that makes a tequila. That's going to be George Clooney. Just so you know, Billy did slip me 50 bucks to make sure that Clundog comes out on top of the list. I also got Strong Arms on the way to the water cooler by Billy. Oh, man. Don't a lot of country music people, which is- We've got several country musicians in this lineup. I'm trying to remember celebrities and who they are and what they do. Celebrities. Any other guesses on number two celebrities? Do they know things? On number two? I'm probably not allowed to guess. I think I can- You and I know what was pulled, so we should not be guessing. Future Pat, take us into number three. Number three, Lobos 1707, Reposado. We're back to something aged here. Yeah, it's got a little hint of straw yellow, pale straw. Chris, I get a little bit of dill in this one. Yeah, to me, it smells remarkably similar to the first one. Yep. Yeah, it tastes similar but less sweet too. Almost makes me suspicious, Jim. Hey, I'm the dungeon master, okay? I know what I'm doing. So this one, this has a little less wood for me and a little bit more of the agave. So this is more of a Repo for me is what it's Yeah, I can see that. got them off. Whereas the first one I thought was a young Añejo. It shows more oak in the finish too. This one does? Yeah. I like it though. I think this is another one. The sweetness seems more natural. I think so. And there's less of it. It's got a pretty clear barrel note in the back. I think I know what this one is. Yeah, agreed. It doesn't explode with sweetness like the other one did. But this still has substantial honey note to it. There is a backing, like a high note viscosity that's in there. For sure. It's good though. I like this. It is a little wood heavy on the palate for me. Yeah. It's a little woody for a Reposado. If it's a Reposado, maybe it's an Añejo. And it's just very light in color. I like this one quite a bit, though. It's got another very good from me. This is almost too nice to put in a margarita. And I'd say that. No, you can't be that precious with a tequila. I was making margaritas last week and I was like, well, what do I have to not walk downstairs for and is open? And it's like, well, El Tesoro and Yeho it is. He made a delicious margarita. He made a margarita with baking soda and capers. The only tequila now in my kitchen is Patron Bordeaux, so it might get margarita at some point too. All right. Any celeb guesses on this one? Slightly more vibrant. What's her name from Legally Blonde 2? Sylvester Stallone. Legally Blonde 2. Just Legally Blonde 2? Not the first one. Alicia Silverstone. Alicia Silverstone. She was in Legally Blonde 2? Silver Spoons is a totally different thing. What am I looking for? Who was the other mean girl in Mean Girls? The one who went on to a more illustrious acting career. Rachel McAdams. Dying an untimely death. Yeah. No. Rachel McAdams is alive. Are you talking about Lindsay Lohan is alive? Wait. You're thinking of two different movies. You're thinking of Clueless with Brittany Murphy who died. Oh yeah, that's who I was thinking of. Felicia Sturrest on the Clueless. I was thinking- Clueless was a great movie, man. I love Clueless. It's the best. Oh, my cranberries tape. Or it's a CD. It might have been a CD. Love of God. Future Pat, cut us off. Since this will get cut anyway, I'm pretty sure I can smell who's cooking number three. Uh-oh. Seriously? Why didn't you just say that? What does it matter? Because you don't want to be wrong. Because I know what was picked. You're afraid it's PBR. Number four, 818 Blanco. Dude, number four smells like cotton candy. Yeah, it does. It's gross smelling. Okay, so first of all, it's clear. I know who's cooking this up. Number four smells like college. It's bracingly clear, crystal clear. It smells just like candy. It tastes like it too. Candy or college? Both. It also has a fatter mouthfeel. That's not natural. Dude, it's like a- Marshmallow. Burns your throat. Oh, yeah. Marshmallows. I don't like this one. It's bench candy floss. Actually, I think I know who's this is. Toasted marshmallow. Joe, who do you think it is? I'm not allowed to guess because I helped poll, so it would be cheating. That doesn't make any sense. Again, it's a multi-choice question of 15 different options, or maybe two or three different clear ones. But Chris, what do you think? Who the celebrity is? No, I don't know. It's just a big sweet. Oh, I honestly do not know if this is the correct answer, but I just remembered Kendall Jenner has a tequila, and I can't imagine it tastes good. So since this sucks, I'm going to guess that it's her brand. I think I was just pretty much sure. If there was going to be one that tasted like burnt marshmallow, that would be the one, right? Right? I think you're wrong. Really? I'm just going to go out on a limb. I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered, maybe not, maybe I didn't taste it. This may be the first time I've tasted it. I have not had the 818 to be clear, so I don't know what it tastes like. I just don't picture good things. This gets the much maligned meh rating from me. Whoever did it, they didn't do it well. My humblest of opinions. I think we can all agree on that. Not good, not good. Okay, moving on. You don't agree? We can't just trash this one forever. It's hyper sweet and then it has a little bit of alcohol burn that the others don't, so that sweetness isn't even covering up. Those are the attributes you're after? But I'm just trying to think of any dumpster I can think of. It's so sweet. I want to go with the country singer here. I'm going to go with Dwight Yoakam. Good one. That's a really good one. But I actually like Dwight's music, so I'm kind of offended now. I'm actually, you know, he's a great country singer. Number five, Teremana Reposado. Okay, we've got something else with a very pale straw color here. So it smells real compared to the last couple. It smells like, it's definitely a Repo, right? Yeah, it's got to be. And it definitely has the herbal aloe kind of tequila note. Yeah, the lowland agave flavor. It's like a little more wild, right? A little grassier, a little bit more vaginal. A little. I wouldn't pigeonhole it as that though. It's got some richness to it and some honey and agave nectar character. It's got a little bit of that lime character on the nose. A lot of tequilas, you might get a bit of a citrus, citrus oil type of thing on the nose. Has a feminine perfume quality. Yeah, I agree. I like this one quite a bit. Lime and I get cucumber. This is a fantastic tequila. I'm a fan. Very good. Cocoa powder on the back, a little bit of black pepper. Good job, rich person. I'd also think we'd be remiss not to mention this is by far the driest tequila we've tasted. Which is great. Big fan of actually tasting what the agave can do as opposed to what the additives can do. Precisely. The agave is shining through here despite a little bit of wood. But it's all about the actual agave. I think this one is Kendall Jenner. Really? I think this is the 818 Reposado. Interesting. Whatever it is, it beats the daylights out of the last one for me. That is true. So I don't know, it may be benefiting at its spot in the lineup. Yeah, that could be. So we've got a Kendall Jenner guess. We just have a resounding endorsement from Joe. Chris, you like this one? I do. I think it's, yeah. This is a beautiful tequila. Good job. Good job, nameless millionaire. Good job, Andre the Giant. Good job, Warren Buffett. Isn't this Andre the Giant's tequila? I think it is. Anybody want a peanut? Is that Princess Bride? I don't know what you're talking about. I accidentally guessed the word Princess Bride. It's the only quotable Andre the Giant thing for normal human beings, unless you're just like one of those wrestling fetishists. I just associated him with the word obey. Right? Okay. Thank you. Number six, Flecha Azul Añejo. We might be getting into Añejo territory looking at the color, but of course, they can add coloring and they don't tell you. That's a good time to bring that up. We mentioned earlier with sweetener and stuff. By law, tequila can contain up to 1% by volume of added stuff, and that stuff could be artificial oak flavoring or vanilla extract or sweeteners, whether natural or artificial. They could be sweetened with aspartame. It can contain caramel coloring. When you're talking about these more industrial extracts, whether it's oak or vanilla or sweetener or coloring, a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny minuscule amount goes an incredibly long way. You could stay under 1% and have a tequila that looks and tastes like Añejo and may not be. Now, they can't legally label it as Añejo unless it's minimum age one year. The additive rule doesn't get you around the minimum aging laws. Two months to 12 months Reposado, 12 months or more Añejo, three years or more extra Añejo. You can't get around that. So you're talking about things labeled gold. Yes, exactly. Now, like a Cuervo Gold classically, that's a Mixto tequila. Right. There are none of those in here, right? No, no Mixtos, no. We are 100% agave only podcast. Always will be. But a Mixto is a mixed fermentation. It's only has to be 51% agave and the rest is usually corn or sugarcane distillate. So this one smells legit. This is what I would pin as more classic lowland character on the nose. It's got much more of that green pepper or asparagus. Yeah, green pepper. Vegetal character. And it definitely follows through on the palate. There's lots of herbaceous and peppery. Which is really nice. I mean, I generally lean toward fatter, sweeter things like highland tequilas. But this is when lowland tequilas are well done. They're I mean, they're classic. Yeah. I mean, this is also very dry comparatively, and there are mineral notes in my mind. Like I'm picking that up, too. We're sure like a slaty minerality in the finish. Pencil lead. And it's still in the very end finish. It has like a grippy oak to it. I think this is a legitimate in Yeho. I really enjoy this quite a bit. I normally don't lean in Yeho because I think it's an awful lot of wood for tequila, personally. I don't think the wood is overdone here, is that the key? Yeah. I think it's an in Yeho. This is very good. If it is an in Yeho, and I think it is, they've judiciously oaked it. This is very nice. Big fan. Like it. Good job, celebrity. Jim, I wasn't thinking that we'd need 16 different glasses each here. Sorry. We've got more cups than the others. Who is that celebrity? Al Pacino. This is a dry, powerful, aged tequila, well-aged. I could see this being a Pacino tequila. Having never tasted it, I'm going with Marky Mark at this one. I haven't tasted the Marky Mark one either actually. So there will be at least one surprise in here. Yeah, there will be a surprise. If we have a Marky Mark. I mean, I assume we have a Marky Mark in here. This is more Marlon Brando on the waterfront. Or Marlon Brando and I would have knocked him a row. I'm going to guess. Make more 40 years ago celebs references. I'm trying to think of country music people, but I don't know very many. Oh, this is Hank Williams Sr. Oh, I'm going to say George Strait. Does he have alcohol? He does. He has a tequila. Whoa, does he really? Okay, then that's my guess. George Strait, we're going to guess Taffy Klein though. That'd be a good guess too. Crazy. Dolly Parton. Does she do alcohol? I don't think she's got any. She can do whatever she wants. Number seven, Casamigos Reposado. It's bubble gums. Whoa, yeah. This is more cotton candy bubble gum. You're right. All candy. It's really sweet on the back. The finish. Wow. It's very vanilla-y. Vanilla like the Tootsie Roll Fruit Chews, they have that vanilla flavor. That artificial vanilla. Tootsie Roll makes more than Tootsie Roll? Yeah. Tootsie Pops, Fruit Chews. Tootsie Bobs. Tootsie Pops. Oh, Pops. How many looks does it take? There's Fruit Flavored Tootsie Rolls. Yeah. And there's a vanilla one. And there's a vanilla one. And it's very artificial vanilla. Who buys these? Where do you even get these? All the time. Walgreens and Target. Your kids, I think you nailed it personally. It tastes just like that. Your kids have come home with these in their Halloween candy. Yeah, for sure. This is the Halloween candy we throw away. No, that's the black and white one. It's the blue tootsie. Blue wrapper. Blue wrapper. Blue wrapper tootsie wrapper? Blue, green, red. How have you made them? Yellow. Vanilla, yellow, yeah, yellow. They're always just like randomly thrown in with Halloween candy. They're always just like scattered in your kids' Halloween candy bag. But you can buy them actually. Are you sure this isn't like the kind of candy that like the fireman throws at you a little too aggressively? No, it is. It definitely is. That's exactly it. So you have had it. You are familiar with this. Or this is a Mandela effect, and we're actually imagining it. All right. Well, this tequila sucks. Anyway, so Pat, why would they do this to tequila? Like it seems like if they had just done less. Like what flaw is hitting me here? We live in a nation that not only embraces an epidemic of diabetes, but like gleefully embraces it. And seeks it out. If it was allowed, we would have a Twinkie flavored tequila already. We're almost there. All you'll need is the yellow breading outside. Also I think that the part about some of these sickly sweetening and covered up tequilas is we don't know what the original over-processed, quick, young. That is auto-clave. Well auto-clave is fine, diffuser is not. Diffuser. So like this is a way to cover up, like people are harvesting two and three year old agaves when you really need to wait until five. The lowlands minimum five years and the highlands minimum six years. And so if you are harvesting young agave and processing them in an industrial **** way like with a diffuser, you need to cover up that somehow. And the way you do that is with flavorings and sugar. Now forgive my ignorance, but if you harvest agave that soon, aren't the sugar levels pretty low? They are pretty low. That is why you use a diffuser. So a diffuser will extract 99% of available sugars out of an agave. But because the way it does it, you put the whole thing in one end and juice, fermentable juice comes out the other end. You are also getting all the bitter waxiness from the ends of the pencas and stuff. So everything else is over extracted too. Yes. Oh, guess on Celebs for number seven. Who is the celeb I don't like? I am feeling strong Stamos here. Stamos? I think this is Joe Pesci. No, Joe Pesci's isn't overly sweet. Come on. You think Joe Pesci's making this vanilla cotton candy, sugar laden? Tootsie roll flavor, I've never heard. Ariana Grande is a good guess. John Stamos, Mike Love, Collab Tequila. The Kokomo of tequilas. Yeah, right. Does Ariana Grande have a tequila? I have no idea. Not yet. Or if she does, it's possible she does, but. I'm sure at some point. Could this be a tequila by Dom DeLuis? Why do you keep picking celebs from literally 30 years ago? Who are also dead. I'm going to say this is Buster Keaton. I like that guess a lot. I like that one a lot. I was going to go with Chaplin, Keaton. It's better. The kids love references to silent movie stars, guys. This one is like- Only silent in the sound, but not in their performance because it's saying. All right. Your guess is registered. We're moving on to number eight. Number eight, Santo Blanco. It's gasoline-y. I think it's really off smelling. Really? Yeah. I don't pick up enough of it to think it's off. It's got this chemically weirdness to it. Yeah. Both of you guys, huh? It's grassy. I can see the grassy thing. It just seems soft. Yeah. I feel like the nose is shy on this personally. Woof. Oh, this is why they put more sugar in there, huh? This isn't good. One time we had this- Oh, it's got a soapy finish. It's harsh. Yeah. It's got a very harsh finish. I don't like this. We had this vodka one time. It's not bad, but it's okay. It's not awesome, but I don't hate it. We had this vodka one time, and I think it was a wheat vodka or something, and it wasn't neutral. It had a lot of character, and it was sour cherry and then some other stuff. This reminds me more of that, really soft gin, like anise, that stuff instead of tequila with fresh vegetable balanced with sweetness. Citrus and- It's just flat. Yeah. It's closer to a vodka in character, but a lousy vodka where they weren't going for cleanliness. Aga vodka. Aga vodka? Yeah. It probably is aga vodka. What is that? Diffuser made bull***. Oh. Well, I didn't mean to just backhand it that hard, but- That's just a guess. My guess is that this one's pretty popular. My guess is this one's possibly the most popular of all the ones we'll taste today. Is that the Rocks? No. No. What's the most popular one? I'm thinking this is the Clune Dogs. Casamigos. Yeah, we'll see. That's a really good guess. I mean, it's a whole lot of nothing. It's really unoffensive. It's clearly tequila, but it's like tequila for a vodka drinker. This is the Tito's of tequila. Which we love both of them. Yep. Thank you, both brands, for keeping our lights on. We do love both. All right, cool. Well, we'll find out. Future Pat, take us into the next one. Number nine, La Gritona Reposado. Number nine. This one, I feel like I don't smell anything. This one has the faintest little bit of color to it, it seems. Yeah. I bet that could that mean like a Cristalino style? Generally, the Cristalino process gets it all out. Strips it clear. It could be a Hoven, I suppose, which is a less than two months aged. Are these all tequila or are they all agave, like is there a mezcal? No mezcal. We brought only tequilas today. Only tequila. It could be a very, very lightly aged Reposado. Yeah, it could be a Reposado that's just aged in third-use barrels to give it a little oxidative aging and not much barrel character. I don't get a lot from the nose. This one is not offensive. It's soft. But not memorable either, if you like. There's a little bit more going on with this than the last one, though. I think there is a noticeable little bit of oak on the nose. I think that's definitely true. I think there's oak here. I think it is very soft and round in the mouth. Until it swells with heat through the palate, and then it's hot on the finish. There is a little heat on the finish, although the last one was much hotter. I think it's got a rich oakiness on the finish. Citrus peel on the finish, too. Yeah. This is pretty nice. I would drink it. I'm not blown away by it. It's got a good plus plus. Good plus plus. That's like a B plus, you guys. Is it though? Nobody knows. Nobody needs to know except me. Which celebrity is that, then? Oh, B plus plus celeb. No, I mean just tequila. Dan Aykroyd. I was going to go John Candy. I don't know why. That's a good guess. That's a really good guess. A little plush. Candy is an A-lister, okay guys? Kind of funny, but can't carry you through an hour forty-five. Dude, Jim wants to fight you. Insults his wife all you want, but you come for John Candy, you get the hands. Honorary Chicagoan John Candy. Anyway, I'm going with Jimmy Smits. Solid, solid. You're on to something. I'm talking Bale Organa's Reserved Reposado. Attack of the Clones era, Jimmy Smiths. That's one of the only good things in those freaks. I'm going to go with that country band that just broke up. The Dixie Chicks? Florida Georgia Line. Oh, Florida. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Florida and Georgia got in a fight. They went to South Carolina. Right on the border. Did they go to South Carolina? Good thing the battle lines were already drawn. These jokes are so dumb. Yeah, welcome to Barrel to Bottle. Yeah, okay. All right, moving on to number 10. Yeah. Sincoro Añejo. Swish. Yellow. This is candy. Oh, gold actually. Candy cake. Yeah, it's got like a vanilla cake, like gas station vanilla cupcakes. I have never had a gas station. Oh, little Debbie ones. Vanilla cupcakes. Those vanilla cakes are like octagonal in shape. Yeah. That little Debbie makes, those are the ones I'm talking about. The yellow version of, no, the white version of the chocolate. Yeah. The swirl on top. Hostess makes a vanilla cupcake also that's similar. Zebra. I've never had that because why would you not buy the chocolate Hostess cupcake? Because people get into the crazy flavors. Oreo does it. I'm in. So this is presenting Añejo, but it's really sweet. It's round and fat on the mid palate. It is very rich and sweet and a lot of vanilla on the finish. It's not offensively sweet like some others have been. So I'm going to give this a good plus, not a meh. I'm being a little generous here, but it's, but if somebody gave me this, I would drink it. I can make a margarita out of this and save it, I feel. I mean, I feel like- Go a little heavier on the lime juice. I feel like this is a really popular style for people who want something really easy to drink. I bet it's expensive. It's just soft. I think I know which one this is. Soft and sweet and vanilla-scented and I mean- Can I revoke? Yeah. There's nothing offensive about it, but it is not. Where's the agave character though? Yeah. It's like barrel character. It's all honey. Yeah. Honey and vanilla. Yeah. I want to revoke my Kendall Jenner guess and move it to this one. This one's Kendall Jenner? Yeah. I think this one's $75 to $100 for a $750 Oven Yeho. I think Joe has the right guess. Why doesn't he say it out loud? $75 to $100 for a $750 Oven Yeho? Joe, say it out loud. I'm not going to take that shot. It's not like there's a price on the line there. He did something there. You're not picking up what he's putting down. He's running a triangle offense on you. Oh, he thinks it's Michael Jordan. Okay, I gotcha. Oh, sports. Running a triangle offense. I like that. Thank you very much. Thanks for making it increasingly more. To be fair, Jenna, when the Bulls were quote unquote playing basketball, it was more like art in motion. I was also like five when they started that thing. Well, they have them recorded every game. So not appreciating the great things around you is just a lifelong passion? Yes. Yeah. I do remember watching it on TV, but I don't remember anything else other than that. You can borrow my learning to fly VHS if you want to. Thank you. I do love Tom Petty. I have Ultimate Jordan on DVD. Also, I ain't got wings. I mean, I did watch during the pandemic. Tex Winter. Triangle. Speaking of Tex Winter, did you ever go to Tex Ridders? No. Shut up. Number 11, El Bandito Reposado. A faint bit of color here. Yeah. Even paler straw than the last time I said pale straw. Well, we're back to some genuine agave notes in the nose, in my opinion. So Repo, right? Yeah. There's a bit of vegetal character here. Okay. It's pretty good. Little lime pith. Little spicy. Lot of citrus. And grass. Rich mouthfeel. Yeah. It's a nice finish. The oak comes. Yeah. Pepper, green pepper and like white pepper oak in the finish. Yeah. Very spicy on the finish. I like it. This is a margarita tequila for me. And back to dry again after the sweet agave or whatever that was last year. Pretty good tequila. I'm giving it a very good minus. A very good minus. Yeah. I know. That's like an A minus. But he doesn't want to call it that. No. It's like a B plus. I think it's a little bit better than that, though. It's like a B plus plus. It's really good. Nice and easy. It could drink this neat. It could drink this on a rock. It could mix it if you want. Yeah. Yeah. Because I think it has a... It's actually like a regular B plus... . a plush mouthfeel up front, but then it's really dry and cleansing on the finish with a long, lingering minerality to it. Yeah. Yep. I'm a fan. Number 11 celebrities. Florence Pugh. Who's in...? Florence Henderson. Who was the... not Justin Timberlake, but the other guy who went to the space? Who went to space? Who went to...? Rocky Balboa. No, Jeff Bezos. Joey Fatone? Was he in NSYNC? Yeah. One of the other boy band guys. Not Timberlake. Lance Bass. Thank you. Lance Bass. Lance Bass went to space? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. What? Why did we send Lance Bass to space? Why did we let him back? He bought a trip to space. Yeah. Why did we give Lance Bass so much money? Why do I think that this tequila is his? I don't know. I mean, because it's- We got bad priorities in this country, man. Seductive and pale. Real weird priorities. All right, good. Anybody have other celeb guesses besides that? Bobby Bonilla. Is that like Bonnie and he's Padre? Well, it's New York Met. Well, he was a pirate as well. Pirate Met. But he's very famously gets paid a million dollars a year for the Mets for 45 years or something. He signed this deal with them. They paid him to go away. So there's a certain day every year, it's Bobby Bonilla Day. July 1st. He gets a million bucks. He puts that money into his tequila company. That's why you come here for these celeb factoids of yesteryear. Alcohol, esoterica and trivial nonsense. Number 12. Hold on, you don't have it yet. Number 12, Cali Rosa Añejo. Oh, look at the color on this. Oh, I know what this is. This was aged in wine barrels. I know exactly what this is. It looks like chocolate liqueur. Right? Wine barrels? It does have a bit of a reddish hue to it, Jenna. Dude, it looks like cola. It does. So, I mean, what are we thinking here? Extra Añejo? I'm not allowed to guess because I know this one. I think I know what this one is too. But it also has real vegetal agave in the nose. It does. It's got a lot of caramel. Chocolate. I smell chocolate in here. It's surprisingly chocolatey. Oh, yeah. A lot of cocoa. But the agave, it's got all that oaky chocolate and caramel and stuff, but the agave still comes through for me. Yeah, it does. Which doesn't always happen. A lot of times, it's just completely obscured when there's this much of it. Chocolate covered cherries, the tequila. Yeah. It's still bright and spirited also. It's tequila trying to taste like Blanton's. Yeah, exactly. Real heavy. I can't say I would ever return to that. I'm not a fan. That's an easy sipper. No complaints. You like it, huh? I don't hate it for a nice little change of pace. The Nestle Quick. This is a C student. This is a good. So much chocolate on the palate. So much chocolate. Twizzlers. It's kind of unsettling how much chocolate is in the tequila. When was the last time you had tequila tasted like chocolate? Those don't exist because red vines have self-respect. Twizzler or red vine? Twizzler. Red vine is the correct answer. I hate them both. What? Twizzler? You hate Twizzlers? I absolutely hate Twizzlers. Don't you? Really? Malted rye whiskey, you'll hate it too. I don't mind malted rye whiskey. Really? Yeah, you weren't on that one. Tend to have a lot of red rope licorice character, Twizzler character. A whole lot. And 100% malted rye? Yeah. There's not many of them out there. If I'm not, most of my Twizzler objection is textural. Oh. Yeah, red vines have way better texture. No, red vines are like those hot dogs that have like a- Red vines are just- Thick skin hot dogs. Like garbage. That's what red vine is like. Thick skin hot dogs. Yeah, like the nice snappy hot dog, but you don't want that in a red vine. I would like to know what it's like to live so wrong all the time. The two of you, if you could let me know. Oh, this is the person who doesn't appreciate the 90s bulls. Okay. I didn't say I didn't appreciate them. I said, I don't remember them. You might as well have said that. Chris, you got a celeb guess on this one. So, rich and chocolatey. What's the name of the bird on the Cocoa Puffs box? Yeah, Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. That's the guy here. Maybe Mr. Hershey. Hershey. Yeah. Mr. Hershey is a good guess. I was going to go with Brooks and Dunn. Brooks and Dunn? Yep. Which one? That's a shoe brand? Both. It'd be like a... It's a suit brand. It'd be a combined effort. Both Brooks and Dunn. Or the Oak Ridge Boys. Some kind of Judd. Alabama, the band. Alabama, the state. You might be right. It might be Alabama. This is the time of year when I'm always... I think Billy just slipped in only 50 bucks under the door. Always thinking about the band Alabama because they had the hit song Elvira. I was just gonna say that, damn you. I was gonna say maybe the celebrity here is Elvira. Yep. See, we only need one of you on any given podcast because we both just have the same basket of old music horse sh** that nobody cares about. And we got Chris and Roger for old candy and we got Chris and Joe for old music. Chris and Roger for fruit. See, that's three people fulfilling one given role and two given roles at the same time. Yeah, right. Number 13, Codigo Reposado. Oh man. Number 13. This is fresh. It's pretty fresh and herbaceous and grassy. Grassy and citrusy. Citrusy. Yeah. Lots of citrus to me in the nose. There's a specific flavor on the finish. It's like a buffalo trace, like a mint cherry butterscotch all at the same time, something like that. I think this is a pretty oaky reposado, but I don't think it's been adulterated in any way. I like this. It really wears the barrel on its sleeve on the finish. Cherry slurpy. But it wears a toasted oak barrel on its sleeve. There's a roasty smoke. That classic cherry icy, that's that cherry flavor. Honestly, this could be Teremana, but I had guessed Teremana earlier. I didn't say it, but I wrote it down on an earlier sample. I could see this being Teremana. Yeah, that's the rock. Coconut? I mean, toasted oak presents as coconut often. Yeah, a snowball. But I mean, a lot of bourbon barrels to have some of that character, whether they're overtly toasted or not. Yeah, well, this would have gotten a re-toast after they took it down there. What is? Possibly. I mean, it's possible. It's a pretty noticeable flavor for me on the end. Okay. I like this. I think this is a very good tequila. Yeah, I think it has a good balance between the genuine agave coming through and pretty aggressive oak, but not over the top. I think it's for blind drinkers. Actually, I rescind my Teremana guess because I think it's too lowland in character. Teremana is very, very much a highland tequila. You think it's for Blanton's drinkers and not Hancock's Reserve drinkers or Rockhill Farms drinkers? Unfamiliar. He's been an annoying bourbon guy, and we need to ignore him. So, Benicio del Toro, maybe? He did have that Patron collab for a while. He did? Oh, yeah. In a bottle that was like a decaying body or something. Yeah, and it was in a whole case and everything. Was that Verveto's? Was that Benicio del Toro? That was Benicio del Toro. Verveto's had one too, but Benicio del Toro definitely had a Patron collab that was like 300 bucks. Are you sure you don't mean Guillermo? That's definitely who he's trying to say. Guillermo del Toro. Isn't that what I said? I said Benicio. I said Benicio. Okay, no, I meant Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo del Toro, yeah. Benicio, I was thinking, we don't have stores in Italy. This is a bunch of bull. Boy, Greg is over this episode. Everyone missed Chris's great joke about Benicio del Toro. I just want to say. What was your joke? And Guillermo del Toro. I said it was a bunch of bull. Thanks, Jim. I would play it right now. Yeah. In our new recording studio, are we going to have a soundboard where we can live? Oh yeah. A hands horn button. We need one. I mean, we're going to get one. We also need like an applause and like symphony music. We can play people off if they're talking through one. That we do need. That we do need. And we also, we need a beep button. That's hard. No, because then we need like a, I'm not going to be sitting on that beep button. Everything's on a five second delay. No, we don't have a delay. We're a podcast. Would you get a sad trombone sound as well? Oh, if we're getting a soundboard, it's going to be loaded up with all kinds of good stuff. I'll record some live sad trombone. Pat's been promising sad trombone for once. I'm waiting until you guys build me a studio. Number 14, Don Ramon Reposado. Okay. So number 14 smells like soap, smells like orange soap. I don't think it's as soapy as that other one I said was soapy. This is definitely orangey and citrusy. Orange caramels. Orange and then vanilla. It's a creamsicle. I don't really like it. It's not offensive, but I don't really like it. Then it gets grassy at the finish, green pepper at the finish. It gets peppery and hot on the finish. This makes me think- That green pepper really comes out of nowhere. Surprisingly vegetal on the finish. Yeah, surprisingly vegetal. It's green, like green pepper. This makes me think it's a more industrial product personally. Because it's a candy treat upfront and then it gets all weird and vegetal. Yeah. I think that's a good call. It gets an okay. Who's the dude, Adam Levine from Maroon 5? Doesn't he have tequila? He has tequila. Okay. That's my guess. Kelly Rosa. I don't think this is that. You're wrong, Jenna. That's a great guess. What? Kelly Clarkson is his brand? Kelly Rosa. Well, if we're going with hot bands from 2007, I'm going to go with this is Will I Am's Tequila. I think it's Fergie. It's so Fergalicious. You know what? Fergalicious is a fitting adjective for this tequila. All right. On to number 15. Number 15, De Leon Reposado. Wow, this smells terrible. Here, Greg. You really sold it to me, Pat. Oh, God. It smells like spray paint and blood. I was going to say it smells like paint thinner. Spray paint and blood. What have you been up to? Greg's junior high years. Last Friday night, I was out tagging. It tastes like spray paint. Fell down. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's bad. Oh, dude, it does. It's like scabs. Scabs. Covered in macurochrome? Iron and spray chemical. It does. Yeah. If you've never had scabs, it's iron. I was just talking about the gnomes. This is really not good. It tastes terrible. I think this is famous punk rocker Ratskabies. Ratskabies. It's not Patsmear? No, not Patsmear. Do you know that one, Joe? Ratskabies. Ratskabies? No, no, but this might be from Johnny Rotten, perhaps. Yeah. Well, that was bad. I'd like to forget it as soon as possible. What's next? Number 16, Dos Primos Blanco. Okay. This one smells weird too. It's cheesy. This one is loaded up with some added sugar. I don't know if I'd call it cheese. I guess it is cheesy. It's lactic. Yeah. Right. It has a cheese rind aroma like that. A natural cheese rind aroma. If you've ever smelled the end of a Stilton. Yeah. Yeah, the rind. That real earthy, rindy. And it's got a dry finish. Jenner shuddered. Yeah, it gave me the shivers. What is this? Like a 22-year-old drinking shot. Exactly. Yeah. It's got a dry oakiness in the finish, but it is crystal clear. This is sophomore year of college when I drink a bunch of teal for unofficial St. Patrick's Day and blacked out. That's what this reminds me of. Yeah. It's like a bitterness toward the finish. It reminds me of one of Roger's descriptors for Amaro, like dirt in a blender with tomatoes. Yeah. It's better than scabs. Yeah. It is better than the last one, but not by much. So this gets a myth when the last one got a no. Oh, this should get a triple met. I mean, they both get a no. Yeah. Yeah. Met equals no. There's a no. Met is just a gentler. I didn't even know there was a no. No is a rare bird. Just a straight up no. I'm pretty sure Don Rickles made this one. Yeah. Just as a joke. It does feel like a personal joke against me. Wow. So mean. So mean. Well, that was- Well, Don Rickles- Way to end on a high note, Jim. Thanks a lot. Some dungeon master you are. Wait, there's one more. Wait, there's one more. But wait. No, you're joking. I was on 16. Okay, good. That was 15? That was 16. That was 16? Yeah, we're on 16. Pat Sajak? Ooh, yes, Pat Sajak. Definitely a Sajak. Yeah, this is a Sajak. This is a Sajak move right there. Yeah, want to buy a Val? Probably can't. Okay, want to buy some better tequila. Oh. All right. All right. Wait, did anyone write our guesses down? I wrote my guesses down. I got my guesses, my notes and stuff. You wanted us to write your notes for you? What the fuck? They were guessing. Dude, Hollywood isn't even on this episode. Just act surprised. We were guessing celebrities that don't have tequilas for the most part. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, is that true? I think so. We were all waiting on this whole time. It's only a matter of time until every celebrity has it. That's true. I had a long enough timeline every celebrity had to do. Even posthumously. All celebrities will have tequilas. There is an alternate universe. There's a different Marvel cinematic universe where everybody watches DC movies and every celebrity, all tequilas are only celebrity owned. And I'm pretty sure that six of these were all by David Hasselhoff, but I didn't want to say it. Don't hassle the Hoff. Greg's so mad about this episode. Look at him. Joke answers only, you guys. I would be open to laying on the ground and eating a cheeseburger. All right, give them some answers. I want to know. To Kill It number one is Jaja. Ha ha. Okay. Oh, that was the Instagram celebrity who only reposted other people's memes. Yeah, who would only post other people's memes. Like screen caps of tweets. Do you have a list of who actually, the celebrities actually are? Yeah. That is also a band though. So it was this Instagram account. Jerry, the chain smokers, is that who it is? Who are the chain smokers? Who are the chain smokers? Yeah, they suck. I can't remember. They're just like, just like, f*** Jerry. They... Really? Yeah, they're just... They're s***y, I think. They're like... So that's Jaja Reposado, they're like... I said it was very good. I really did like that. My guess was Teremana or possibly Lobo 1707, but I thought it was a bit sweet if I recall. Suspiciously sweet. I liked it. Yeah, a little sweet. It was suspiciously sweet. So do we know if that was sweetened or not? Let me try that again. With some level of certainty, I would say this has added sugar. I mean, it tastes 100% agree. It's skillfully done, but it's in there. Tequila number two. Gran Coramino. That is Kevin Hart's Cristalino that just came in. We all guessed it as a Cristalino. I assumed it was Gran Coramino. Not bad. All right, well, Gran Coramino, it is what it is. It's a Cristalino. It does a fine job with that. I don't think it's going to change any opinions on tequila. I didn't hate it. Yeah, I mean, it was clearly Cristalino in style. I mean, nobody missed that. Yeah. All right. What's number three, Jim? Tequila number three is Tequila Lobos 1707. Lobos 1707. Interesting. In PX barrels. I have never heard of this. That is, LeBron James is connected to this in some way, although he's not like the sole owner. It's a PX barrel partly. Does it say there's bourbon barrels in there too, Jim? No, it just says PX finished. PX finished implies bourbon barrel too, right? Yeah, that implies it saw a different barrel beforehand, which unless they're just throwing away money, it's a bourbon barrel. Solid. I said it was very good. That's the one where I thought there was actually some dill on the nose. Herbal, round and rich. I had an oaky finish, which I just retasted again. It does have a drying oak in the finish that I think balances out some of that sweeter PX element. It's not overly PX-y, which I like. I agree with those notes. I thought it had clear herbal, vegetal character alongside an interesting oak. The sweet roundness wasn't overwhelmingly dominant. Yeah. No. That's well-crafted. I'll say that. Yeah. I like that one. Yeah. I have that down as I liked it a lot. Big fan. All right. What's number four? Number four is 818 Tequilias. Was that my original guess? Too sweet. Just way too sweet. Yeah. It was terrible. Now, they actually go about making that tequila the right way. They source mature agaves, they pot distill it. They seem to be telling the right story on the production side. I think they then just ruin it by adding a bunch of sugar to it. Are you sure they're not hanging marshmallows in the still? That's possible. It's a marshmallow pachuga. They're hanging out. This was the marshmallow one. The bunny-shaped peeps in the still. It's a Marshmallow Kanejo Tequila Pachuga. This one had definitely, the finish was all marshmallow. Again, I mean, sweet is, sweet sells, so. Agreed. I thought the next one was 818. What's the next one? Next one. I think I guessed this. That was my highest rated of the whole day. I gave that a very good plus. I thought it was Kodago, which is the George Strait one, which is really high quality tequila. Just throwing it out of the country, it's a six star high now. Teremana, way to do it, man. Yeah, big fan, big fan, it's a very nice one. I love these since the day we first tasted them. I've been all over these as high quality tequilas at fair prices. This is 100% additive free. Going to mention this is only $30 or around there, isn't it? It's around 30. It's like when it's on, it's 33 bucks and you know when there's some, we put it on sale for as low as 28 probably. Yeah, that's nuts. For the sake of the audience also, we're talking about Dwayne The Rock Johnson here. Yes. Oh yeah, we forgot you as we know. DJ. The Rock. Nice man, friend of Binny's. Not a friend of the pod yet. Not a friend of the pod yet. We do need all rock episode of Barrel to Bottle Podcast. Well, so everybody was on board with that. I agreed. Great tequila. That was the best tequila. I gave it the highest rating. I don't know if I'd have to retaste them again. I think probably best for your money, like best value for sure. Great job, man. Yeah, I think that was my favorite of the whole flight. Yeah. All right. What's number six, Jim? That would be Flecha Azul. Flecha Azul. From Mark Wahlberg. Well done. Now, was that the Añejo? That is the Añejo. I said it was vegetal on the nose but soft and full. I liked it. I said it was very good. Yeah. I think this one's legit. Nice job, Marky Mark. Big fan too. Yeah, I liked it. Yeah. Really nice. I hadn't tasted that one yet. That's a really nice Añejo. Yeah. Biz Marky Mark. Number seven, my favorite Batman, Casamigos. Oh, I gave that a meh. He said bubblegum cotton candy, sweetened vanilla on the finish. Yeah. That was the vanilla tootsie roll. John Stamos should be Batman. That was candy. And that was a Casamigos Reposado. So that is the Klundog's- Klundog's Reposado. Was he Nipple Batman? Yeah. That is- Come on, Adam West or nobody? Oh. But that goes to show we have no taste because that's the most popular tequila we have. That is one of the most popular tequilas we have. And so the next one, number eight, is what I had guessed as Casamigos. What is number eight? Number eight. Santo. Santo. What is that? Santo. That is your ticket to Flavortown. Guy Fieri. With Sammy Hagar. With the Red Rocker. The Red Rocker. Come on, yeah. Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri, right? Does he hang a bucket of donkey sauce in the still when he makes his own? This is the one where I said we all said it had a very harsh finish. Yeah. Yeah. Grassy, soft and grassy up front, soft around on the palate, harsh finish. He's probably drinking it while smoking his cigars, so he doesn't notice the harsh finish. His cigars are good. The Flavortown cigars are really good. I really like that cigar a lot. Have you had that one, Joe? Nope. Oh, it's good. This is the previous Barrel to Bottle episode. And the bottle does kind of look like Axe body spray. Yeah, it does have a... Yeah. I do imagine that he smells strongly like Axe body spray. But I have no idea. I didn't run into him at the Rage Against the Machine show, so I wouldn't know. He was going to all those rage shows, you know. Who was? Oh, Guy Fieri went to like eight different cities of the rage tour that's going on. Good for him. Oh, yeah, totally. There's videos of him on Reddit just standing up, just rocking out, singing along, and he's just like in the mid-level of the crowd, like in the mezzanine seats or something. I bet he's a dude. I bet he's awesome. I always imagined him as a radical left-winger. Yeah. I'm glad we sell this stuff. It's just not very good. Well, I said it was okay, so it's a step above Clooney. I didn't give him a met. I gave him an okay. It's way better than that orange tucci roll that we had. Yeah. All right. What's number nine, Jim? La Gritona. La Gritona. Wow. Look at that bottle. That's great. I liked it. It was a celebrity. A hardcore punk guitarist nobody's ever heard of. What's his name? Andy Coronado. Greg has his records. We were talking about him the other day when Joe was here. Yeah. Andy Coronado. Well, this hardcore punk guitarist is involved in this. The other real celebrity is the lady that is doing all the work down there in Mexico, who owns the place. So it's female run and owned. Oh, that's cool. Nice. It's a good tequila. I gave it a good plus plus initially. Round, soft, rich, oak, and citrus on the finish. I liked it. Yeah. It's solid. Yeah. I'd like to point out on that bottle too. That's the B plus. Recycled Coca-Cola bottles that have been melted down. The green tint in there are actually flecks of Doseki's bottles to give the green tint. Recycled glass and female owned and behind it. The bottle is cool. I endorse this brand. It's embossed glass instead of a label. Swing top. Yeah, swing top. And this is a 375, but I saw the 750 in the store. It's the same one. Same bottle. It's the same bottle I buy all my snake oil in. Yeah, I know, right? All right, cool. What's number 10, Jim? Number 10 is Sincoro. Yeah, guessed it correctly. This is quite a bottle. This is when we were running the Triangle Offense. This is the Tex Winner tequila. This is Michael Jordan. This is Michael Jordan. Jeannie Buss. This is the Philadelphia 76ers owner or something. There's five NBA people. Sincoro is the five golds, and the angle of the cap up there is at a 23 degree angle. It is. The bottle is shaped like an agave penkin, agave leaf. Oh yeah, that's cool. That's cool. I brought the Añejo because- And there are five sides to the bottle. Because there are five sides to the bottle. I will say the aged expressions for this branch show much better than the Blanco. And I was told that the 23 degree angle is not because of Jordan's number, but because of the angle of the circle on the court or something is like 23 degrees. The three point line? Yeah. Or the key? I mean, that may have been misinformation. I don't know. The circle at the top of the key? Maybe. I don't know what a basketball court looks like. Yeah, none of that makes any sense. Something on the basketball court. So it's probably his number then. Yeah, it's got to be the number. That's Michael Jordan thinking. The NBA, though. Having grown up in the area, that's Michael Jordan. That's the kind of thinking that led to a house that hasn't sold in 20 years. This is the f*** them kids tequila. This is incredibly overpriced. It's gotten pretty expensive. This is like 120 bucks now or something. This was a solid B tequila for me. You were kind to this tequila in your review. Yeah. Okay, fine. Michael Jordan's tequila. What's 11? Following up with another Chicago sports legend. Oh. El Bandito. El Bandito. This is Chris Chelios. I like it. This was like an A- for me. This is very good for me. Friend of Benny's. Friend of Benny's. He recorded a commercial for us. You can find it on YouTube. I thought this had a vegetal agave character to it. This one I thought had a spicy finish too. Solid tequila. Very solid. Good job. Big fan. Yeah, good. Yeah, adorable. That's reasonably priced too, I want to say. I want to say, isn't that 40 bucks or is it 30 bucks? Bandito. Bandido. The Blanco is- 41.99. The Blanco is 37.99. This is the Reposado. 42 bucks for the Reposado. All right. Rock's got you beat on price, but this is very solid flavor. Very tasty stuff. I think the next one was one of the weirdest ones, and I really want to know who this is. I know exactly who this is. I know who it is. This is a weird tequila. Let's see. Cali Rosa. Yeah. This is Cali Rosa Añejo. This is Adam Levine's. Is this the one I said was Asian Wine Barrels? Yes. Because it is. Yeah. Oh, nice. Okay. So they have a Rosa Blanco, which is rested in red wine cast and is more pink in color, and they have this Añejo, which I also believe is Wine Barrel A's. Does it say so on the back there, Jim? As long as that wine was chocolate. It does not. I think that the package design here, first of all, I love the typography and the way that they cut off the words on the label, the purposeful misprint. I love it. And second of all, it's such a weird chocolate ball of a tequila. Why is it so chocolatey? The label is perfect. It is perfect. It makes you think candy by looking at this weird, two hues darker than a blue coca-cola. It got a C for me. It got a good. I would not want to be marooned on a desert island with that. Oh, yeah. I got it. Maroon 5, Greg. Joe's picking up what you're putting down. Yeah. No, it has moves like Jagger. Yeah. Yeah, no. That's Maroon 5? Yeah. No, sh**. Oh, that's when I made the. They don't rock like Jagger, though. All right. Number 13, Jim. Number 13 I really liked. What was number 13? Codigo. Codigo. This is. George Straits. George Straits, OK. Really nice Reposado. Herbaceous, citrus, grassy, toasty oak finish. That's the one where you were all over the toast oak, right? On the fish. Great stuff. We did one handpick with them so far of their Rosa, their Cabernet Barrel Rested Blanco. It sold out like immediately. Cabernet Rested Blanco. We just took barrel samples from them. Actually, just last week we tasted some. Let me find the notes. I really liked the Rosas and I liked a couple of the Añejos. I didn't like the Reposado barrel samples we got. I even called one of them lame. Lame isn't one of your scores. I ended up liking one of everything through the whole round. It got a score just also with the added note of lame. Do we know, was that an accurate prediction that they re-toasted the barrel? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows. But it was toasty. Yeah. Nice job. Cool bottle. Got the little bubbles in it like it's handmade. Got the cross. And you know the cool thing about this celebrity tequila is that it has its own song. So you can go listen to George Strait sing the song Cody Go. Not what I would call a cool thing about it. You clearly have no taste in music. The next three I disliked. So let's get them out of the way. What's number 14? Oh, Don Ramon. I said it was OK. So this is, Pierce Brosnan is connected to this now. I think he's just endorsing. There's billboards all over it. He might just be endorsing as some kind of ambassador. But whatever we included it. Jim wanted to make some Black Adam, Dr. Fate reference. Yeah, what's your reference now? No, just because the Rock and Pierce Brosnan are in the upcoming DC movie, Black Adam. Very excited. Rock put the smack down on tequila. And I think he's gonna do that in the movie too. It's a shame that Mr. Pontani is not here because I think a decade ago, he had to go hang out with Mr. Don Ramon. Yeah, he went to that. Pontani has been in this distillery years ago. It looks like an old lady perfume bottle. Yeah, it's got like a little jolt. They do have a new bottle. The ones on the billboard are the new ones. This is an older bottle. Yeah, it's got a weird thing. We used to sell the crap out of this tequila when I was still in the stores at Buffalo Grove and Schaumburg, for example, like 14 years ago. I always thought pretty highly of it, but tasting blind was only okay. Number 15. De Leon Reposado. De Leon. That's why he just gave a hard no to. Yeah, yeah, this one was not well received. Wow, that was so bad. Sorry, Diddy. This Puff Daddy? Yeah. That's Puff Daddy. Boy, that was bad. That was probably the worst thing I tasted today, I think. Even worse than 818 and Casamigos. Yeah, it was bad. Wow, that was bad. And finally, Dos Primos. 16, Dos Primos. Oh, wow. You know, I thought higher of this when I didn't taste it blind. It didn't change my opinions about tequila, but I didn't think it was bad. I gave it a meh. Who's this celebrity? This is a country music guy named Thomas Rhett. Is that it, Joe? Yeah, R-H-E-T-T. Him and his cousin. Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn. Imported exclusively by Dos Primos Tequila, St. Louis, Missouri. Luxco sells it. I understand now. They gotta bring it through the arch. Yeah. It's a gateway to flavor. Give it the blessing. The gateway to Jalisco. Is that it? That's it. No, that's it. That's all 16. Okay. Well, we did. That's the thing we did. That is, yeah. I didn't even, I wasn't even aware of most of these tequilas. Yep, me either. Because there's so damn many tequilas. There's so many. There's so many celebs. And we didn't even get into the Mezcal of which I can think of. No, there are several Mezcals, actually. Mezcals would be fun to do. George Clooney's got a Mezcal in that line, too. Yeah, true. Yeah, I've never tasted it. There's a bottle in the sample closet. And I'm actually afraid to now after having tasted the repo. Well, we sell a lot of all of these. So keep making these rich people richer. Celebrities, do they make tequila? What tequilas do they make? Let's find out. Celebrities, they're just like you. Sometimes they screw up really badly. So I really love Teremana, Flecha Azul Añejo, Pleasant Surprise, the Jaja Reposado. I like the Lobos. I gave a good rating, too. The Lobos was nice. The Lobos was good. El Bandito, surprisingly good. Kodago, very good. The Rock is still the King of the Ring here. Yeah. King of the Ring. Hey, so this was surprising for a couple of them, or Pleasant Surprises. A couple of them, I think we kind of expected to be pretty middle of the road. Boy, we just all can't get over how much we love the Rock. Unfettered honesty on many of these. Honest, I mean, this is the only, we've said it many times before, we're going to keep saying it. But blind tasting is the only way to taste honestly. This was a lot of fun though. I'm glad we finally did this. Listeners, I hope you enjoyed this nonsense. We'll see you next week with something hopefully better. I'm Pat. I'm Greg. I'm Chris. I'm Jim. I'm Jenna. And I'm Joe. Keep tasting. Do you smell?