Provenance

At Tequileña in the eponymous town of Tequila, Jalisco, home to a range of celebrated tequilas, Master Distiller Enrique Fonseca distills agave predominantly grown in and around his highland hometown of Atotonilco el Alto. For this añejo expression, Enrique ages select tequilas initially in used Cabernet Franc wine barrels from the Loire Valley of France for a minimum of 14 months. The tequila is then extracted from the French oak and laid into toasted American white oak previously used to age either Canadian whiskey or Tennessee rye whiskey, for a minimum of 14 additional months, for a truly masterful balance of oak and agave flavors.

Tasting Notes

Color: rich amber

Nose: butterscotch, citrus, baking spices, vanilla

Palate: toffee, walnut candy, custard, orange zest, dark chocolate

> Created by Felipe Camarena in the highland town of Jesús-María at El Pandillo, a highly innovative and one of a kind distillery
> Fermented with rain water, and distilled with a 50/50 blend of rain water and filtered on-property well water
> Active aeration prior to bottling illuminates flavors of the sugar rich agaves and high mineral content soil
> Distillation in small volume copper pot stills
> Verified Additive Free by Tequila Matchmaker

TASTING NOTES

Aroma: yeasty minerality, fresh rainfall, cooked agave, mint

Palate: spearmint, freshly cut grass, deeply caramelized agave presenting a warm, full, and medium bodied mouth feel

Finish: rounded, soft and persistent