Tequila Cascahuin
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LVworldTraveler
Playa del Carmen, Messico806 contributi
giu 2024 • Amici
First and foremost. We aren’t rookies at this. Living in MX (8yr) and experienced in 9 private distillery tours and too many private tastings to count. Don’t be impressed because your guide is bilingual or from an exotic homeland. Most important guides are from the tequila lowland and highland areas. We insist on long term employees and/or owner’s family. This one is one of the best tours and tastings in the lowlands (Tequila, Amatitan, etc.). They have some very good products (personal tastes vary) and unique processes. I won’t spoil anything. Eric was a knowledgeable, personable and gracious host. Cascahuin tasting takes place in a beautiful garden/setting. Don’t be afraid to ask for additional pours of your favorites. The nominal fee separates the lookers from those wanting a personalized experience.
Scritta in data 21 giugno 2024
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kevinkR7460ES
Puerto Vallarta, Messico6.331 contributi
mag 2024 • Solo
Went for the tour and tasting. Very informative and an awesome guide from Japan who was passionate about tequila. I think it was the best blanco I tasted (out of many) and affordable.
Scritta in data 28 maggio 2024
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Adventure57592304463
4 contributi
apr 2023 • Coppie
The young guide had gone to high school in Santa Ana, California, so he was truly bilingual! The process used here is spectacularly respectful of the product. The tour just raised my knowledge so much, and made me appreciate the heritage.
Scritta in data 3 maggio 2023
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JonyEX&Coffee
El Arenal, Messico533 contributi
feb 2023
This is the second time I visit this distillery and I felt more in love, the first time I didn´t take the tasting because didn´t have time but I've finally done it.
If you want to visit a traditional distillery and taste some of the best tequilas nowadays, please book in advance a visit to Cascahuin in El Arenal, Jalisco.
The tour takes about 2 hours but depends on the group, questions, and interest in the visit. We could witness the whole process from the agave pineapples arriving on the patio to the final tasting from the bottles.
Cascahuin is a brand respected by the local people, so you can be sure you are learning from the best.
We learned about the process with our guide Kevin, he took us to a very nice terrace with our tequila-tasting set. We had the chance to taste beautiful glasses, and 6 differents tequilas from this house. Tequila Blanco, reposado, añejo, tahona, plata and extra añejo.
We paid on arrival, 5 minutes before the tour starting time at the store, and we went back to buy some bottles as gifts there.
This is for me, one of the best tequila-tasting tour you can make from Guadalajara and the Tequila area.
If you want to visit a traditional distillery and taste some of the best tequilas nowadays, please book in advance a visit to Cascahuin in El Arenal, Jalisco.
The tour takes about 2 hours but depends on the group, questions, and interest in the visit. We could witness the whole process from the agave pineapples arriving on the patio to the final tasting from the bottles.
Cascahuin is a brand respected by the local people, so you can be sure you are learning from the best.
We learned about the process with our guide Kevin, he took us to a very nice terrace with our tequila-tasting set. We had the chance to taste beautiful glasses, and 6 differents tequilas from this house. Tequila Blanco, reposado, añejo, tahona, plata and extra añejo.
We paid on arrival, 5 minutes before the tour starting time at the store, and we went back to buy some bottles as gifts there.
This is for me, one of the best tequila-tasting tour you can make from Guadalajara and the Tequila area.
Scritta in data 12 marzo 2023
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SeveBellisteros
Kansas City, MO27 contributi
feb 2022
This is an up close tour of a classic old school operation. We loved it. Kevin is a very nice guy who does an informative tour in English. Eating the freshly baked piña right out of the oven was a real treat. Could not recommend more for an authentic experience close to Guadalajara accessible by Uber.
Scritta in data 9 febbraio 2022
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D O
Santa Rosa Beach, FL23 contributi
apr 2018 • Coppie
We were brought here on a private tour. We were able to view the entire operation from watching the pinas being chopped and put in the ovens to tasting the cooked agave (which is like candy) to seeing each and every step of the process, we even were able to taste the newest batch right from the still. This isn't a large facility. Despite its size, they produce 4 expressions under the label Cascahuin, and 4 expressions (which you can get at the duty free shops, but not the distillery) under the Revolution label. All of their tequila is produced using the traditional method and using copper stills. This is a must stop for any tequila aficionados that visit Tequila. We will be back again.
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Scritta in data 28 aprile 2018
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David J
Dallas, TX14 contributi
gen 2018
Great visit with Chava and Tetsu tasting all the expressions and then some. A brand we cannot get in US, so happy to fill our suitcase with treasures from Tequila Cascahuin! Wonderful people, great history and superb tequila!
Scritta in data 25 febbraio 2018
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John P
Guadalajara, Messico340 contributi
mag 2017 • Amici
Many years ago we used to take all our visitors from abroad to José Cuervo in Tequila so they could learn first hand all about the process of making Mexico’s most famous alcoholic drink. In the 1980’s, Tequila was truly a sleepy town and touring Cuervo meant wandering about the distillery with a delightful old retired employee who regaled us with tales of bygone times as we and our guests gingerly hopped over puddles and ducked under ladders, the workers eying us with as much curiosity as we felt watching them.
Those days are long gone. Cuervo’s tour is now prettily packaged for the masses of tourists who, every day, are bussed into the town of Tequila by the hundreds.
There are, however, alternatives. The Ruta del Tequila is dotted with hundreds of enterprises and the trick is to find those with just the right characteristics and size. A perfect example is the Cascahuín distillery in El Arenal, one of the most important tequila-producing towns, but quiet and unassuming and conveniently close to Guadalajara, at a distance of only 26 kilometers from the Periférico. The word Cascahuín, by the way, means “Hill of Light,” referring to an agave-covered cerro not far from the distillery.
Owned by a family with 113 years of experience in tequila-making, Cascahuín employs traditional techniques which some of the bigger producers are abandoning. On arrival at their site, I was met by the distillery’s Brand Manager, Tetsu Shady, from Japan. I was, of course, amazed to find a Japanese working (and living) in El Arenal and asked him what had brought him to this Mexican pueblito.
“I’m a mixologist by profession,” said our smiling host, “and I worked at this specialty for fourteen years in Tokyo. During this time I became interested in tequila and visited Jalisco in 2009. Then I came back again in 2014 to learn even more about it.
Here Shady (which is an anglicization of his surname) became friends with “Chava” Rosales, grandson of Cascahuín founder Don Salvador Rosales Briseño. After carrying out studies at the distillery, Shady was invited to join the staff and now takes care of advertising and promotion and also adding “a bit of a Japanese touch” to procedures at Cascahuín.
When asked what it was like to settle down in El Arenal, Shady replied, “Mexico is totally different from Japan. My biggest problem,” he added jokingly, “has been trying to find fresh fish in El Arenal.”
Tetsu Shady and Chava Rosales then took a friend and me on a tour of the distillery.
Inevitably, I discover something new every time I watch the tequila production process. This time I learned that there are male and female agaves and when the piña is chopped in half, a central core (cogollo) must be removed from the macho piñas because it produces methanol and a bitter taste. The piñas now go into the brick ovens where they are cooked for eight hours per day over three days and then left to “rest” for a day. I hadn’t realized that it’s in the brick ovens where most of the sweet juices drain out of the piñas and are collected. Afterwards, the cooked agaves are chopped, squeezed and rinsed with well water to remove every last drop of their sugary juice.
This traditional process is being followed at Cascahuín, but many other distilleries now take shortcuts that allow them to produce high volume, sacrificing quality, of course. While some use autoclaves (giant pressure cookers), others don’t even bother to cook the agave anymore. They simply mix chopped-up raw agave fibers with sugar and water and ferment the result, a process I would liken to stirring powdered milk into water and calling the result real milk.
Although they no longer use it, Cascahuín preserves an ancient pit oven in which agaves were cooked by covering them with dirt and building a huge woodfire on top of the heap. Next to it is a stone-paved circle where juices were extracted from the cooked fibers by pounding. Researchers have found remote communities in Colima who, even today, use these primitive systems for making mezcal. So, count yourself lucky because at Cascahuín you can see tequila being made the good old way until it drips out of a faucet, crystal clear and 70 percent alcohol. This is reduced to 38 percent once it’s in the bottle, ready to drink. “An exception is our Plata (silver) version of Tequila Cascahuín,” mentioned Chava Rosales, “which is 48 percent alcohol.” They also have reposado and añejo versions, both of which, by the way, are aged in barrels which previously contained Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
If you want to visit Tequila Cascahuín, the easiest way to do it is on a Tequila Tour by Mickey Marentes (Tequilatourbymm.com). Marentes’ tours are very personalized and the groups never have more than 12 participants. If you call them several days in advance, you could ask them to arrange for Tetsu Shady to mix up one of his special cocktails for your group, using natural ingredients like mangoes, strawberries or coconuts, depending on which fruits are in season at the time. Tours can be arranged Monday to Saturday. By the way, if you tour Cascahuín, you are showing support for one of the very few tequilerías concerned about the endangered bats which pollinate the tequila agave.
How to get there.
Take Avenida Vallarta west to the Periférico. Continue west on highway 15 for 28 kilometers, which brings you into the town of El Arenal. Along the way, do not get onto toll road (cuota) 15 or highway 70 to Ameca. Upon entering El Arenal, look for Las Cazuelas restaurant on your left. Make a left turn here onto Calle Avelino Ruiz. Drive 316 meters. As soon as you cross the railroad track, turn left onto Calle Ferrocarril where you will find the entrance to “Tequila Cascahuín” which is thus named in Google Maps. Driving time from the Periférico: about 30 minutes.
Those days are long gone. Cuervo’s tour is now prettily packaged for the masses of tourists who, every day, are bussed into the town of Tequila by the hundreds.
There are, however, alternatives. The Ruta del Tequila is dotted with hundreds of enterprises and the trick is to find those with just the right characteristics and size. A perfect example is the Cascahuín distillery in El Arenal, one of the most important tequila-producing towns, but quiet and unassuming and conveniently close to Guadalajara, at a distance of only 26 kilometers from the Periférico. The word Cascahuín, by the way, means “Hill of Light,” referring to an agave-covered cerro not far from the distillery.
Owned by a family with 113 years of experience in tequila-making, Cascahuín employs traditional techniques which some of the bigger producers are abandoning. On arrival at their site, I was met by the distillery’s Brand Manager, Tetsu Shady, from Japan. I was, of course, amazed to find a Japanese working (and living) in El Arenal and asked him what had brought him to this Mexican pueblito.
“I’m a mixologist by profession,” said our smiling host, “and I worked at this specialty for fourteen years in Tokyo. During this time I became interested in tequila and visited Jalisco in 2009. Then I came back again in 2014 to learn even more about it.
Here Shady (which is an anglicization of his surname) became friends with “Chava” Rosales, grandson of Cascahuín founder Don Salvador Rosales Briseño. After carrying out studies at the distillery, Shady was invited to join the staff and now takes care of advertising and promotion and also adding “a bit of a Japanese touch” to procedures at Cascahuín.
When asked what it was like to settle down in El Arenal, Shady replied, “Mexico is totally different from Japan. My biggest problem,” he added jokingly, “has been trying to find fresh fish in El Arenal.”
Tetsu Shady and Chava Rosales then took a friend and me on a tour of the distillery.
Inevitably, I discover something new every time I watch the tequila production process. This time I learned that there are male and female agaves and when the piña is chopped in half, a central core (cogollo) must be removed from the macho piñas because it produces methanol and a bitter taste. The piñas now go into the brick ovens where they are cooked for eight hours per day over three days and then left to “rest” for a day. I hadn’t realized that it’s in the brick ovens where most of the sweet juices drain out of the piñas and are collected. Afterwards, the cooked agaves are chopped, squeezed and rinsed with well water to remove every last drop of their sugary juice.
This traditional process is being followed at Cascahuín, but many other distilleries now take shortcuts that allow them to produce high volume, sacrificing quality, of course. While some use autoclaves (giant pressure cookers), others don’t even bother to cook the agave anymore. They simply mix chopped-up raw agave fibers with sugar and water and ferment the result, a process I would liken to stirring powdered milk into water and calling the result real milk.
Although they no longer use it, Cascahuín preserves an ancient pit oven in which agaves were cooked by covering them with dirt and building a huge woodfire on top of the heap. Next to it is a stone-paved circle where juices were extracted from the cooked fibers by pounding. Researchers have found remote communities in Colima who, even today, use these primitive systems for making mezcal. So, count yourself lucky because at Cascahuín you can see tequila being made the good old way until it drips out of a faucet, crystal clear and 70 percent alcohol. This is reduced to 38 percent once it’s in the bottle, ready to drink. “An exception is our Plata (silver) version of Tequila Cascahuín,” mentioned Chava Rosales, “which is 48 percent alcohol.” They also have reposado and añejo versions, both of which, by the way, are aged in barrels which previously contained Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
If you want to visit Tequila Cascahuín, the easiest way to do it is on a Tequila Tour by Mickey Marentes (Tequilatourbymm.com). Marentes’ tours are very personalized and the groups never have more than 12 participants. If you call them several days in advance, you could ask them to arrange for Tetsu Shady to mix up one of his special cocktails for your group, using natural ingredients like mangoes, strawberries or coconuts, depending on which fruits are in season at the time. Tours can be arranged Monday to Saturday. By the way, if you tour Cascahuín, you are showing support for one of the very few tequilerías concerned about the endangered bats which pollinate the tequila agave.
How to get there.
Take Avenida Vallarta west to the Periférico. Continue west on highway 15 for 28 kilometers, which brings you into the town of El Arenal. Along the way, do not get onto toll road (cuota) 15 or highway 70 to Ameca. Upon entering El Arenal, look for Las Cazuelas restaurant on your left. Make a left turn here onto Calle Avelino Ruiz. Drive 316 meters. As soon as you cross the railroad track, turn left onto Calle Ferrocarril where you will find the entrance to “Tequila Cascahuín” which is thus named in Google Maps. Driving time from the Periférico: about 30 minutes.
Scritta in data 2 luglio 2017
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suniolvera
San Juan Teotihuacan, Messico
Buenas tardes, me gustaría empezar una pequeña marca de tequila, ustedes podrían vendérmelo?
Muchas gracias por su atención
Scritta in data 25 gennaio 2018
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