Fortaleza Blanco Tequila

Tequila Matchmaker's founder called Fortaleza Blanco probably the best blanco on the planet, and the Tasting Panel scored it 95 — it's the bottle that made a generation of bartenders and enthusiasts care about how tequila is made. Guillermo Erickson Sauza is the great-great-great-grandson of Don Cenobio Sauza, who founded Sauza in 1873 and first exported tequila to the US; the family sold the brand but kept La Fortaleza, the original distillery in the town of Tequila, and in 1999 Guillermo dusted off Don Cenobio's equipment and brought it back to life, releasing Fortaleza in 2005 at NOM 1493. The Blanco 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 with spring water, and bottled unaged at 40% ABV in a hand-blown bottle with a hand-painted agave-piña stopper — additive-free. The Tasting Panel: vanilla, clay, and agave on the nose, white flowers, white pepper, and vanilla on the palate — delicious, fragrant, elegant. Agave Matchmaker's tasters: cooked agave like the moment the horno doors open, thick viscosity, creamy. Long Island Lou ranks the whole line at the top of his favorites. Honest note: allocated and hunted, and worth every minute — a Margarita with this in it is a different drink. Neat, in a copita, or the best Margarita of your life. Fortaleza.

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