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Tequila blanco

Spirits & brews· spirit

What it is

Tequila blanco is tequila bottled shortly after distillation, unaged or rested only briefly in steel or neutral wood.

What it tastes like

On the nose: oily, dry, pineapple, pear. Among its measured molecules: farnesol, 1-butanol, nerolidol, citronellol, ethyl decanoate.

Every one of its 15 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

• 1-butanolaromaalcoholreads as dry, burning taste (PubChem)Measured in 13 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row '1-butanol', week-0 column)
• 1-propanolaromaalcoholreads as burning taste (PubChem)Measured in 23 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row '1-propanol', week-0 column)
• linaloolaromaalcoholreads as spicy, citrus taste (PubChem)Measured in 91 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — an agave-derived terpene, not an oak one — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, Terpenes block, row '3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-dien-3-ol', week-0 column)
• isobutanolaromaalcoholreads as sweet, musty (PubChem)Measured in 24 of 341 ingredients.cite

  52.63-63.19 mg/100 mL anhydrous alcohol in Tequila 100% agave Silver class — Acosta-Salazar et al. 2021, Foods (Table 3, block 'Second distillation', row '2-methyl-1-propanol')
• furfuralaromafuranreads as almond (PubChem)Measured in 34 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — in an unaged tequila it comes from the cooked agave, not from wood — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, Furans block, row 'Furan-2-carboxaldehyde', week-0 column)
• ethyl butyratearomaesterreads as pineapple (PubChem)Measured in 22 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row 'Ethyl butanoate', week-0 column)
• ethyl decanoatearomaesterMeasured in 17 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row 'Ethyl decanoate', week-0 column)
• citronellolaromaterpenoidreads as rose (PubChem)Measured in 15 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, Terpenes block, row '3,7-dimethyloct-6-en-1-ol', week-0 column)
• ethyl acetatearomaesterreads as fragrant (PubChem)Measured in 43 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row 'Ethyl acetate', week-0 column)
• isoamyl alcoholaromaalcoholMeasured in 46 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected in the Silver tequila at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1 (Volatile compounds identified, classified according to the maturation time in weeks and the oak barrel origin), row '3-methylbutan-1-ol', column 'Maturation time (weeks) = 0')
• ethyl hexanoatearomaesterMeasured in 36 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row 'Ethyl hexanoate', week-0 column)
• isoamyl acetatearomaesterreads as pear (PubChem)Measured in 26 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, row '3-methylbutyl acetate', week-0 column)
• farnesolaromaalcoholreads as oily (PubChem)Measured in 1 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, Terpenes block, row '(2E,6E)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,6,10-trien-1-ol', week-0 column)
• geraniolaromaalcoholreads as sweet rose (PubChem)Measured in 26 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, Terpenes block, row '(2E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dien-1-ol', week-0 column)
• nerolidolaromaalcoholMeasured in 14 of 341 ingredients.cite

  detected at week 0, before barrel contact — Martín-del-Campo et al. 2019, Data in Brief (Table 1, Terpenes block, row '3,7,11-trimethyl-1,6,10-dodecatrien-3-ol', week-0 column)