Amatiteña Tequila Barrancas Blanco

55% ABV

Amatiteña is produced at the Cava de Oro distillery in the historic Tequila producing town of Amatitan in the lowland valley of Jalisco. The Partida family have been farming and distilling agave in this town for generations, and Alberto Partida is the current head of the family business. Amatiteña is a single estate Tequila that utilizes fully mature, 6 year old agaves from a single plot of land, in this case a field called El Tepehuaje. The agaves are cooked in a mesquite fired stone and steel oven as opposed to the usual steam cooking utilized by nearly every other tequila producer. The smoke from the fire is what gives the resulting spirit it's lightly smokey character. The cooked agaves are crushed with a stone tahona and then the juice and bagasso (agave plant fibers) are combined with spring water in large wooden tinas (tanks) where they are spontaneously fermented with ambient yeast. Distilled twice in historical wood-fired copper pot stills; wild mango, plum, and mamey fruit are added on the second distillation. The spirit is rested for a full year in glass demijohns prior to bottling at a robust 55% ABV.

This sits somewhere between Tequila and a Pechuga style Mezcal due to the smoke presence and the introduction of seasonal fruits for the second distillation. It is also the closest you'll come to tasting what tequila was like before modern production practices took hold decades ago. Smoke, citrus, tropical fruits, and cooked agave notes dominate. Gorgeous oily mouthfeel and a lengthy finish. This is the perfect bottle for the Mezcal lover who turns their nose up at Tequila, or for the Mezcal-curious Tequila lover.