• Tequila produced at Cava de Oro (NOM 1477) in Amatitn, Jalisco (Los Valles)
• Maestro Tequilero Alberto Partida
• 100% Azul aka Blue Weber(Agave tequilana)
• Single estate agave harvested from the El Tepehuaje field at 6 years old
• Cooked in a traditional mesquite-wood-fired stone oven (without steam)
• Milled using an automated tahona (traditional stone wheel mill)
• Fermented with fibers (bagasse) in open-air wood tanks (tinas) using spring water and ambient yeast
• Twice distilled in historical, original copper pot stills; wild mango, plum, and mamey added on the second distillation
• Rested over one year in glass before bottling
• The alcohols heat is subtle, offering notes of coriander, candied apple, roasted carrot, mango skin, underripe plum, paw paw, nutmeg, burnt lemon, mesquite, and roasted pear
• 2200 bottles produced
• 55% ABV

Imagine 80 years ago, there were not many tequila consumersit wasnt too important in the city, in Guadalajara. The main business for our family was selling our fruit, maestro tequilero Alberto Partida explains. After blights ravaged the regions agriculture in the 1970s, the strongest fruits survived and dominated: mango, mamey, and plum. And as tequila grew exponentially, remaining family farmlands were widely converted to agave, or sold to larger scale plantations. Today, Albertos uncle continues to tend the orchards, inspiring Alberto to explore more deeply this vanishing aspect of his family heritage.

In a process reminiscent of both the pechuga tradition in mezcal, and the ponche tradition of fruit-steeped spirits most popular around the winter holidays, Alberto has combined the bounty of his home and the Partida familys agricultural legacymango, plum, mamey, and agavein one bottle.

In May, fruits from the seasons harvest are selected and prepared before eventually being added to the second pass of Albertos blanco tequila in his small wood-fired copper pot stills. The resulting spirit is then rested in small glassdamajuanas(demijohns) for a full year. Proofed to an envelope-pushing, full-spectrum 55% ABV, Amatitena Barrancas Tequila is one of the most exciting and hotly anticipated (and limited!) new releases from Mexico in 2024.

INFO:

Producer: Amatitena
Vintage: NV
Country: Mexico
Region: Jalisco
Spirit Type: Agave / Sotol / Pox
Spirit Sub Type: Tequila