Fortaleza Anejo Tequila, 70 cl

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Honouring five generations of the Sauza family’s artisanal legacy, Fortaleza Tequila Anejo is one of the brand’s coveted agave stone-crushed tequilas – known for their exceptional flavour and smoothness.

The agave notes in Fortaleza are bold enough to be able to withstand heavy oak aging, resulting in a tequila that is still able to balance vanilla, sweet spice, and tannins from the wood with cooked agave notes. Their goal is to make the best Tequila they can, and to this day, we have not changed a single thing. Some slight spike in alcohol mid palate that turns to roast agave sweetness, a great tongue tingling finish that fades to that slight bitter remnant. O.C), as Mexican Law states that tequila can only be produced in the state of Jalisco and in limited municipalities in the states of Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit and Tamaulipas.

Don Cenobio was the first person to export ‘mezcal de tequila’ to the US, implement the use of steam to cook agaves instead of earthen pits which were used at the time and founded his distillery La Perseverancia in 1873!

These cookies allow us to create statistical analyses to determine which articles are the most popular. Download the app today - it's free - and let the Tequila Matchmaker figure out your own flavor preferences. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.Age Restricted: 18 Know your limits UK Chief Medical Officers recommend Adults do not regularly exceed: Men 3-4 units daily Women 2-3 units daily www. With a rich family history in tequila, Guillermo Sauza launched Fortaleza in 2005, bringing back the traditions of previous generations at the family distillery that had sat unused for too long. Fortaleza is distilled twice in two 100-year-old copper pot stills and the Añejo is rested in American oak barrels for 18 months. In 1999, Don Guillermo began the process of restoring his family’s old distillery, Destileria La Fortaleza, which was retired in 1968 in favor of more ‘efficient’ facilities. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

For the production of tequila, brick kilns are used to cook the agaves and stones are used for grinding.Absolutely delicious notes coming through, with butterscotch, smoke, vanilla, caramel, fruit, honey and butter. This cookie is set by Rubicon Project to control synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services. We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers.