Tequila seems to have to fight for respect more than other spirits, such as whisky, rum, brandy and even vodka. Perhaps it’s because Tequila seems to be more associated, in the U.S. with benders and beach parties rather than snifters and sommeliers. But one of the small-volume craft Tequila producers helping to raise Tequila’s image […]The post The Best Casa Noble Tequila appeared first on Pursuitist.

Tequila seems to have to fight for respect more than other spirits, such as whisky, rum, brandy and even vodka. Perhaps it’s because Tequila seems to be more associated, in the U.S. with benders and beach parties rather than snifters and sommeliers. But one of the small-volume craft Tequila producers helping to raise Tequila’s image beyond the margarita is Casa Noble, a brand whose history dates back to the 1700s.Casa Noble, which produces about 150,000 litters of Tequila of different ages each year, produces from a holding of about 3,000 acres of blue agave, about one-tenth that of Tequila giant Jose Cuervo (curve also buys blue agave from other growers). And Casa Noble’s blue agave fields are mostly on slopes and hillsides, which stresses the plant, and the company believes produces a more complex tasting agave plant.Another difference in Casa Noble’s process to set it apart is the three distillations to which it subjects its spirit–traditionally, Tequila is distilled twice.If the taste of Casa Noble’s Tequilas seems deepe...