“Luxury = You should do good while you are living well!” Exquisite!
What a beautiful first experience of pairing tequila with 4 course meal plus dessert. Four entrees were prepared by Chef Armando Quiroz, Executive Chef of the City Club, a special worldwide membership, where Cris and Benel Liban belong.
The dishes were done exquisitely well, almost Michelin-star rated, in my humble opinion – more so for the first course of oysters with caviar and the duck Mole with pickled kumqusts.
It was a special grouping of about 30 members sharing this well curated dinner. It included a Global Director of Education and Outreach of Tequila Komos – her name is…She described how Tequila Komos is prepared in a high quality manufacturing process, with agave grown in the forests for 6 to 7 years, then, harvested, processed, and aged, ranging from 2 years to 7 years.
We tasted four varieties: Anejo Cristalino (paired with oyster and caviar and ahi tuna ceviche with watermelon); Reposado Rosa (paired with Roasted Poblano Carbonara); Anejo Reserva (paired with Sesame Seed Seared Duck Mole) and Chocolate Pear Fillo.
“At Tequila Komos, we believe life is a special occasion and every day is worth celebrating, and that tequila should be inclusive, global, and approachable.”
What impressed me was the sustainability practices. Agave plant waste is made into biofuel pellets, transport pallets, construction bricks that will be used to build a school and a woman’s shelter.
Not only did the tequila score a range of scores from 98, 99 to 100, their sustainability practices give you a sense of calm that your footprint in drinking this refined tequila is being made smaller in waste value and bigger in social impact use! She ended by saying “Luxury is you should do good while you are living well.”
To folks who can afford $120 per bottle to $450 per bottle for the Extra Anejo, know you are contributing to respecting the land where agave forests are grown for 7 to 8 years before being made into tequila and where its waste products are renewed into building bricks, pallets and biofuel pellets.
Thank you very much Cris and Benel for sharing this luxurious experience with me. The best part – tequila bottles are made of porcelain and reusable as flower vases. We were allowed to take them home!
