LALO Tequila Blanco

LALO is a blanco-only Blue Weber tequila from Jalisco, produced at NOM 1468 and named for Eduardo Lalo González, grandson of Don Julio González, who runs the project as a third generation tequilero alongside his co-founders. The focus is a single unaged expression that shows the agave and the distillery's hand without wood, and the producer states it is additive-free.
The agave is grown in the highlands and harvested at six to seven years, then slow cooked in masonry brick ovens for 20 to 32 hours and left to rest and cool. A roller mill extracts the juice with added water, fermentation runs three to four days with Champagne yeast, and the spirit is twice distilled in copper pot stills before being brought to 40%. The result leans on cooked agave, baked sweet potato, cinnamon and a thread of dulce de leche, with citrus and tropical fruit across a clean, bright palate.