Paladar Single Barrel Series Añejo Tequila

Paladar's Single Barrel Series Añejo is drawn one cask at a time from Destilería El Llano in the town of Tequila, NOM 1109, the Orendain family distillery that also makes Arette. Eduardo and Jaime Orendain, the fifth generation of tequila makers in the family, run the operation, and Paladar calls them one of the last independent founding families of tequila. Every Paladar starts the same way: blue Weber agave from the family's own fields, cooked in brick ovens, fermented in open pine boxes with a combination of proprietary and wild yeast, and distilled in a pot still. For this series the tequila is aged as an añejo, meaning at least a year in oak, and each barrel is bottled on its own rather than blended with others, so no two releases are identical. Past barrels have gone to partner picks, including a collaboration with musician Adrian Quesada and selections bottled at different strengths, which is why the proof can vary from barrel to barrel. Single-barrel bottlings show what one cask did to the El Llano spirit, and once a barrel is gone that exact tequila is gone with it.

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