Subscribe also Check out our forum and the new Review Browser.

Liquor Review: Agavero

Published on January 11th, 2008 in Liqueurs by Kevin

Agavero

Agavero is an ultra-premium liqueur made from 100% blue agave añejo and reposado tequilas along with the essence of the Damiana flower. It is delicious, unique, and a pleasure to drink. However, you probably never need to waste your money buying a bottle.

Agavero is produced at the las Camichines Distillery which resides in the Jalisco region of Mexico. This area of Mexico includes the spirit whose name is known around the world, Tequila. Yes, that’s Tequila, the one responsible for your loss of inhibitions, loss of clothing, table dancing, enumerable miserable mornings, and just a few bad decisions. Don’t get scared off though, Agavero is a liqueur that is just made from tequila, so I think your inhibitions are safe with this one. Following a 150-year-old recipe, both tequilas involved are made from 100% blue agave plants that are a minimum of 10 years old when harvested. Wondering what the blue agave plant looks like? Well the producers of this liqueur had you in mind when they designed the bottle to resemble the plants used in the production of Agavero. Once the plants have been cooked, crushed, and twice distilled, the tequilas go into new French limousine oak barrels: the añejo for 18 months and the reposado for about a year. After the tequila has spent its time maturing, it is hand-blended with the essence of the damiana flower to produce a drink that is unlike any other.

Like straight tequila, the Damiana flower is also rumored to have an affect on your chances of getting some action or more politely stated, “stir up the emotions of individuals.” During our testing I did not experience any stirring of my emotions. However, my company was the Boozebasher staff, and they are not exactly my type. I did experience a liqueur with a sweet buttery flavor that still had that wonderful earthy taste that you expect out of a good blue agave tequila. When I say sweet I mean spoonfuls of sugar washed down with syrup sweet, in-fact, it was a little too sweet for most of us to drink straight. Mixing Agavero with Sprite© produced a tasty drink but still not anything I would seek out on a regular basis. I also mixed up a batch of margaritas and added some additional Agavero, which made it noticeably sweeter but not really any better. I have a number of recipes, all tasty, but none that have given me a reason to buy another bottle. At 62-proof Agavero is more potent than most liqueurs, but don’t expect it to get you dancing on the table without the help of some other liquors. Unfortunately, during the drunkability testing, the sugar content of this liqueur was so high that I ended up with a splitting headache and only a very slight buzz. So beware when you are feeding this to your date to get her in the mood; she will probably be telling you the truth when she feeds you the “I have a headache” line.

So here we have a liqueur that really does taste great, makes your date more interested in extra extra-curricular activities, and even has an educational bottle. Yet somehow, all that is still not enough for it to find a permanent home in my liquor cabinet. Maybe if you are a tequila fanatic and have a spare $41 to blow, it might be worth it to give Agavero a shot. If you do, and you discover some delicious recipes that might change my mind, please let us know in the liqueurs section of our forum.

Sipability – 7.5

Mixability – 7.5

Drunkability – 4.0

Hangover-ability – 3.5

Bang for the Buck – 3.0

Chick-appeal – 4.0

Overall - 5.5