MIJENTA: The Woman Behind It | From Wine to Tequila Master Distiller

Hello.

Hello.

This is very important day for me.

When Bradley told me, uh, "We are going make an interview with you," this is for me a great honor because I follow your reviews, and I love it, that your passion about tequila.

Thank you.

Well, I appreciate that.

I appreciate that very much.

So, okay, the first thing I wanna do is take everybody to the beginning.

How did you first get into tequila?

My first love was the wi- the wines.

I think always the wine educate my mouth and my sense.

But when I was studying tequila, 10 years less to was studying wines and I'm working in the world of the wines, I discover a new world.

I discover my roots, like, like a Mexican woman.

For me, it was amazing all the processes because I, always I try to compare between the cognac and tequila, and it's a very, very, uh, wisdom about all my past time in my, in my, my, the Hispanic times, the people, how to discover the agave, how make the processes cooking the agave, choose the best varieties of agave.

For me, it was a new world.

And when I start, started my, my career in the tequila, I was thinking in the tequila chamber.

We have, uh, one, uh, room, tasting room, the descriptors of tequila.

30 years ago, uh, we don't have nothing about the, these characteristics with the primary aromas of tequila or the aromas, secondary aromas of the processes.

What's happening in the barrels for me was a research because I was visiting all the distilleries in the, in this time and was interviews with the owners.

For example, Julio González.

Well, I reme- I don't remember a lot mo- a, a lot of times in this moment, but for me, it was a very interesting to know few of these people, their past times, and now the new people about the vision of tequila.

In this time, we don't have CRT, for example, only we have a tequila chamber.

And all the processes, all the how do you taste in tequila, the people don't know, don't knew in this, in this moment, in these times.

For me, it was a, a start a new world, a new way to understand tequila.

I was t- I was tasting all the distilleries, all the, all the tequilas in this time.

Hello.

Hello.

This is very important day for me.

When Bradley told me, uh, "We are going make an interview with you," this is for me a great honor because I follow your reviews, and I love it, that your passion about tequila.

Thank you.

Well, I appreciate that.

I appreciate that very much.

So, okay, the first thing I wanna do is take everybody to the beginning.

How did you first get into tequila?

My first love was the wi- the wines.

I think always the wine educate my mouth and my sense.

But when I was studying tequila, 10 years less to was studying wines and I'm working in the world of the wines, I discover a new world.

I discover my roots, like, like a Mexican woman.

For me, it was amazing all the processes because I, always I try to compare between the cognac and tequila, and it's a very, very, uh, wisdom about all my past time in my, in my, my, the Hispanic times, the people, how to discover the agave, how make the processes cooking the agave, choose the best varieties of agave.

For me, it was a new world.

And when I start, started my, my career in the tequila, I was thinking in the tequila chamber.

We have, uh, one, uh, room, tasting room, the descriptors of tequila.

30 years ago, uh, we don't have nothing about the, these characteristics with the primary aromas of tequila or the aromas, secondary aromas of the processes.

What's happening in the barrels for me was a research because I was visiting all the distilleries in the, in this time and was interviews with the owners.

For example, Julio González.

Well, I reme- I don't remember a lot mo- a, a lot of times in this moment, but for me, it was a very interesting to know few of these people, their past times, and now the new people about the vision of tequila.

In this time, we don't have CRT, for example, only we have a tequila chamber.

And all the processes, all the how do you taste in tequila, the people don't know, don't knew in this, in this moment, in these times.

For me, it was a, a start a new world, a new way to understand tequila.

I was t- I was tasting all the distilleries, all the, all the tequilas in this time.