Fortaleza Añejo Tequila (75cl, 40%)

An añejo tequila from Fortaleza, produced at the La Perseverancia distillery in the Tequila Valley appellation of Jalisco, Mexico. It is made from 100% Blue Weber agave grown in the Tequila Valley lowlands, cooked in a stone or brick oven, crushed with a 100% tahona stone wheel, double distilled in copper pot stills and aged in American white oak barrels. Fortaleza Distillery (NOM 1493) was restored by Guillermo Sauza IV, great-great-grandson of Cenobio Sauza, who founded the original Sauza operation in 1873. The tahona wheel extracts juice more gently than modern roller mills, preserving more agave fibre character in fermentation, while the copper pot stills add agave complexity.