Amatiteña Tequila Extra Añejo

Amatiteña is a Blue Weber tequila produced at Cava de Oro in El Arenal, the valley lowlands of Jalisco, and this is its extra anejo, the class that requires at least three years in oak. The bottling rests in a mix of different cask types, which gives it a deep red brown colour and an unusually broad aromatic spread for the category. It is bottled at 42%.

Three years and more in varied wood pushes the agave to the mid palate and lets the barrel lead. The nose layers cooked agave with tobacco, dried fruit, butter, leather, orange peel and a light smoke, threaded with cherry, cinnamon and caramel. On the palate that complexity carries through as caramel, dried fruit, cherry, leather and pepper, with a touch of chocolate. The finish turns buttery and leathery, the mark of a long sojourn across several barrels.