Destilería Santanera Colección Tahona Blanco Tequila

Destilería Santanera is a Jalisco tequila house founded in 2009 that has built its name on small, process-driven batches made at some of the valley's most respected family distilleries rather than at a factory of its own. Colección Tahona is produced at Cascahuín in El Arenal, NOM 1123, under maestro tequilero Pablo Lara G., and the name tells you the method: 100% blue Weber agave is slow-cooked in a traditional clay steam oven, crushed under a stone tahona wheel rather than a roller mill, fermented in concrete tubs and pine-wood tinas, and distilled twice in stainless steel pot stills. It is bottled non-chill filtered at 41% ABV and carries Jay Kosher certification. The distributor's tasting notes describe bold peppercorn and pear skin on the nose, bolstered by petrichor and baked yam, then a bright, herbaceous palate of fresh sweetgrass, snap pea and lemon zest with an undercurrent of cured meat and wet clay. That combination of tahona extraction and Cascahuín's mineral, earthy house character puts it in the company of the valley's best sipping blancos, and it is meant to be poured neat or with a single cube rather than lost in a margarita.

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