Fortaleza Still Strength Blanco Tequila

Still Strength is Fortaleza Blanco straight off the copper pot at 46% ABV — no dilution — and the Tasting Panel scored it 96, one point above the already-legendary Blanco. Fortaleza is the tequila of Guillermo Erickson Sauza, great-great-great-grandson of Don Cenobio Sauza, who founded Sauza in 1873; the family sold the brand but kept La Fortaleza, the original distillery in the town of Tequila, and Guillermo restored Don Cenobio's equipment and released Fortaleza in 2005 at NOM 1493. Still Strength is 100% Tequila Valley blue Weber agave cooked in a stone-and-brick oven, crushed by a two-ton volcanic tahona, fermented with airborne yeast in open wooden tanks, double-distilled in copper pots, and bottled at 46% ABV (92 proof) exactly as it left the still, in a hand-blown bottle with a hand-painted agave-piña stopper — additive-free. The Tasting Panel: the Blanco's floral aromas enhanced by a wash of blue fruit and cocoa. Distiller's tasters: ripe agave, earth, fruit, herbs, and spice, a complex, slightly creamy palate of citrus, green olive, vanilla butter, and mint, a velvety finish of black pepper, butter, and sea spray. Culinaire: wonderfully rustic and vegetal — treat with respect and add a drop of water. Honest note: the most sought-after regular bottle in the line, and the purest expression of the tahona — if you find it at retail, buy it. Neat with a drop of water, in a copita. Fortaleza, undiluted.

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