Patron Silver was one of our earliest reviews, embodying the well know stance of shouting “PATROOOON” in your college dorm. We much like this tequila have done a lot of growing up from the ‘Sex, drugs, and dubstep’ phase. (We have not really). This Patron is certainly not the oaky and wood flavored you may have signed up for – but it will surprise you.
Let’s ignore the initial taste, the mixing, and the other bits here, and get down to brass tax. This delivers on something you don’t often get here. It sounds simple, but here goes. This tastes as good as it smells and goes down just as good. It’s so rare – often something may just smell good, or go down smooth, and yes the initial bit isn’t super, but still – a rare feat.
What they Say: “Deep gold color with scents of tropical fruits, caramel, cedar and herb. Rich, silky texture. Upon entry there is a powerful surge of fruit and spice balanced by deep wood components. Tremendous, deep finish. Best sipped.”
Taste: 5.5 – It starts off well enough, sure you get that initial bit of sweetness and some powerful agave flavors, but it’s not great.
Aftertaste: 8.0 – That has an almost spine-chilling wave after wave of agave, and it’s warm tasting. There’s not as much mellow or possibly wood that they say is there, but the bits of spice are as well balancing this out from being a 1-trick pony.
Burn/Smooth: 8.0 – That is delightfully smooth to drink straight and enjoyable as hell. A bit more of a mellow or a mellow woodiness though would truly make this shine among other anejo’s.
Aroma: 8.0 – The mellowed wood and agave are mixed perfectly in the smell here. There’s not even a whiff of something bad or wrong here, and in truth, it smells amazing. Like the way, you wish tequila smelled.
Honesty: 7.5 – Most of that text is take it or leave it nonsense. Which tracks anytime someone says ‘deep fruit’. However, this is more the tequila that lives up to the brand of Patron.
Mixability: 5.167
W/ Rocks: 5.5 – Like a scotch, it hides some things, but opens up the tequila. Overall though not stellar as this is simply much better straight.
Margarita: 5.0 – Nope. Sorry but this is about as basic as you get. Unlike the silver which has that large amount of flavor, you take this anyway but neat and it’s like Cinderella after midnight.
Tequila Sunrise: 5.0 – Meh. It’s simply average. All that ‘deep’ flavor just gone in a smidge of OJ.
Value: 4.5 – Hoo boi. That is a full 16 dollars more than silver, and yet it did manage a hat trick of 8’s in the metrics. That being said there’s a core problem with this tequila as discussed in the final thoughts, but it’s just not something that we can recommend spending near $60 dollars for unless you are the person who keeps their tequila in a decanter to sip on outside your porch, and while that’s a fine image – there’s just not a wide market there. We do have to give some points though because in truth they could charge 80 for this, it’d be wrong, but they’d likely get away with it.
Google Shop Average: $56
Website: https://www.patrontequila.com/
Reviewer Scores:
BuffaloJern: 5.0
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Metric Score: 46.67/70 |+| Metric Average: 6.67 |+| Reviewer Average: 5.0
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Final Thoughts: The main problem is – you just don’t love this. I know, I know – but what about all the praise. Sure well done Patron, but here’s the problem. Just because this delivers in going from nose to stomach, doesn’t make it something you’d keep buying. It is objectively good, but I know of at least a few tequilas I’d much rather be sipping, and they’d likely have scored worse overall.
