Gran Padre Blanco Tequila

Gran Padre, meaning great father, is made at NOM 1464 by Destilería 501, a family-owned distillery in El Arenal, Jalisco, a lowland town in the Tequila Valley west of Guadalajara. The family keeps the whole process in-house, growing and harvesting its own agave with jimadores whose families have worked the fields for generations and handling fermentation and distillation itself. The Blanco is the purest look at that work: 100% blue Weber agave from the Valles region, oven-cooked, crushed on a roller mill, fermented in stainless steel tanks, double distilled with a column still in the process, and bottled unaged at 40% ABV (80 proof). Tasters on Tequila Matchmaker describe cooked agave on the nose with herbal and fruity notes, then a palate led by black pepper along with both raw and cooked agave; one reviewer called it sweet and peppery, with green agave notes and heat like cinnamon red hots, and another found that the greenness of the agave comes alive in cocktails. That fresh, peppery profile and an approachable price make it a natural house tequila for margaritas and Palomas, and it holds up neat or on the rocks with a squeeze of lime.

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