The World’s Best Tequila—According To The 2025 World Spirits Championships

Written by: Brad Japhe

The World’s Best Tequila—According To The 2025 World Spirits Championships - The Beverage Testing Institute (BevTest) is a 44-year-old organization committed to providing comprehensive, expert-led sensory evaluations for beer, spirits, cider, sake and even mead. Panelists employ a scientific degree of analysis to come away with professional-grade results. When it comes to hard liquor, specifically, the organization is constantly updating its scores across all major categories throughout the calendar year.

This June, BevTest revealed its winners for tequila as part of an annual evaluation it aptly dubs the “World Spirits Championships.” The top scoring bottle—earning an impressive 96 out of 100 possible points—was a small batch extra añejo from ultra-premium brand Tears of Llorona. Today we’re going to take a closer look at that exact expression to understand what makes it so exceptional. Let’s start off by seeing what the folks at BevTest had to say. Here are the tasting notes provided on the company’s website:

“Mahogany color. Aromas of root beer, coffee grounds, tobacco, and mission fig with a dry-yet-fruity medium body and a tingling, very long oak, peach- fig cobbler, anise, and freshly grated allspice and nutmeg finish. Vibrant, decadent, and wildly nuanced and still easily identifiable as agave-forward Tequila.”

The batch of 86-proof spirit they sampled was on May 29 of this year. As stated before, the judges are quite methodical in their approach. But even using measured, scientific language, the brilliance of the juice shines through in their effusive praise.

The expression, formally known as Tears of Llorona No. 3, is a lowland tequila crafted by master distiller Germán González Gorrochotegui at the Tequileña distillery (NOM 1146). This is the same vaunted facility responsible for other top shelf expressions of agave spirit from brands including Cierto, Don Fulcano and ArteNOM.

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