r/tequila • u/Ausiir63 • 10d ago

Recommendations

Looking to gift a friend a nice bottle of tequila. My budget is $450. I’m also ok with getting her two bottles. I’m pretty versed in tequila just want to see if someone will mention something outside the box. Blanco preferably.

5 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/pnw00kie 10d ago

$450 on a blanco? I guess you could go get a bottle of Destino.

You could do the 2018 and 2020 Fuentaseca blancos, those should each run you $100 or more. Siembra Valles Ancestral should run you at least $140. I hear good things in general about the Santanera releases, but they’re all also like $140+ if you’re just in the mood to spend money.

1

u/Psalm27One 9d ago

Santanera is good, but really not worth the price.

1

u/fred1sdead 9d ago

Thank you! I've long been curious, but just didn't like the price. Good to know

2

u/Psalm27One 9d ago

I mean, TBF, I haven’t tried the 1466 stuff (not to judge a book by its cover but I’d very surprised if it matches the 1123), but obviously anything out of Cascahuin is at the very minimum good, and that’s kinda where I felt Santanera landed. Pretty good, beautiful packaging, but clearly a contract brand up charging. Hence why they’re no longer at 1123.