Don Valente Licorera Silver Tequila
Don Valente Licorera Silver Tequila is a 750mL blanco tequila — "Silver" is the blanco class, unaged — bottled at 40% ABV (80 proof) for the US market, from Don Valente of El Arenal, Jalisco. The producer describes it as bright and luminous, with silver and blue hues. Per TEQUILA.net's review of the blanco, the Licorera is a display bottle, with tequila imagery around its base and a stopper that holds a single shot. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- ABV: 40% (80 proof), US bottling
- Size: 750mL
- Age: None — blanco (unaged)
- Origin: El Arenal, Jalisco, Mexico — brand-level record: NOM 1450, Marco Antonio Jauregui Huerta
- Agave: Tequilana Weber; 100% agave at brand level (Agave Matchmaker / TEQUILA.net)
- Production: Stone/brick-oven cooking, roller-mill extraction, stainless-steel fermentation, twice distilled in copper pot stills (brand's blanco record)
The Blanco in the Display Bottle
Don Valente is a small, family-run producer in El Arenal, in Jalisco's Tequila Valley lowlands, and its blanco is the purest read on the house: brick-oven-cooked agave, roller-mill extraction and copper pot distillation at brand level, with nothing rested away in oak. The Licorera presentation dresses that blanco for the shelf — a display bottle which TEQUILA.net's blanco review describes as carrying tequila-related imagery around its base and a stopper that holds a single shot, so the bottle pours its own first taste. Browse the house on the Don Valente vendor page and more blancos in our tequila collection.
Tasting Notes
Per the producer: an aroma of cooked agave and fresh wild herbs; a sweet flavour of cooked agave with citrus notes. TEQUILA.net's editor review of the Don Valente Blanco — an older review of this bottling line — likewise led with cooked blue agave on the nose and sweet agave in the mouth.
How to Enjoy
Sip it neat to read the cooked agave plainly, or put it in a Margarita or Paloma where an agave-forward blanco belongs. More blancos are in our tequila collection and the full range in our spirits collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Silver tequila the same as Blanco?
Yes — Silver is the common market name for the blanco class: unaged tequila, bottled without oak rest. This bottle's Type is Blanco Tequila and its title says Silver; they are the same category, not two products.
Is Don Valente Licorera Silver aged?
No — it is an unaged blanco. No source ages the Silver/Blanco, and the brand's Matchmaker record lists no aging for it.
Where is Don Valente made?
In El Arenal, Jalisco (Los Valles / Tequila Valley). The brand's Agave Matchmaker Blanco entry sits at NOM 1450, producer Marco Antonio Jauregui Huerta — brand-level provenance, as no Licorera-specific entry exists.
Unaged, luminous, and poured from its own stopper — order Don Valente Licorera Silver Tequila online from Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA.