Don Valente Licorera Reposado Tequila (75cl, 40%)

A reposado tequila from Don Valente of El Arenal, Jalisco, rested six months in white American oak barrels, four months beyond the reposado minimum. It is bottled at 40% ABV in a 750ml bottle for the US market. The Licorera line is the brand's presentation bottling, named from the Spanish for a liquor decanter. The reposado is made from Tequilana Weber agave using stone or brick-oven cooking, roller-mill extraction, stainless-steel fermentation and double distillation in copper pot stills. It pours light yellow with golden and silver hues. Per the producer, the aroma is of cooked agave, oak, fresh fruit, almond and vanilla, with a soft flavour of sweet cooked agave.