Gran Orendain Reposado Tequila

Gran Orendain is the Orendain family's premium line — three generations in the Tequila Valley, at El Llano, NOM 1110, a short walk from Fortaleza — and an Agave Matchmaker taster who toured the distillery came home with it. The Orendains are one of the founding families of the town of Tequila; the family also makes Arette at a sister distillery, and Gran Orendain is the house's own name on its best juice: 100% blue Weber valley agave, slow-cooked, double-distilled, and bottled at 40% ABV, additive-free. The Reposado rests in American oak for the reposado term. Agave Matchmaker's tasters: vanilla and oak on the nose, smooth butterscotch dancing into a sweet finish — refreshing and crisp — though the house's blanco fans note the oak softens the distinctive Orendain signature they love in the unaged bottle. Expect the valley's earthy, peppery cooked agave rounded by the barrel into butterscotch, vanilla, and light caramel, with a clean, gently sweet finish. Honest note: an honest family reposado at a fair price from a real Tequila-town distillery — for the drinker who wants the valley's minerality with a little oak, and a Margarita with backbone. For a reposado Margarita, on the rocks, or neat. Orendain's own, rested.

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