Don Agustín Blanco Tequila

Don Agustin is a 100% agave blanco named for Don Agustin Camarena, founder of the distillery, and the Camarena family ranks among the larger agave growers in Mexico. The agave comes from the family's own fields in Arandas, the highland heart of Los Altos, where iron rich red clay and altitude lend a mineral, floral character. It is bottled unaged at 38% to show the agave and the terroir.

The piñas are baked for sixty hours in brick ovens rather than the faster autoclaves common in tequila, a slow steam cook that draws out a deeper cooked agave sweetness. On the nose that reads as minerality, light pepper and a savoury hint of leather and coconut. The palate is smooth with coconut and a touch of white pepper, closing long and peppery. It is a clean highland blanco that keeps the agave and the brick oven character in front.