Tequila Carrera Tahona Blanco

Tequila Carrera has been making tequila in the Los Altos highlands for more than fifteen years, and the Tahona Blanco is its traditional-process bottling, produced at NOM 1610, Gran Dinastía, in Arandas, Jalisco, a distillery that also makes its own estate tequilas from agave grown above 7,000 feet. Where Carrera's standard blanco is roller-milled, this one is built the old way: 100% blue Weber agave from the highlands is cooked in stone and brick ovens, then crushed under a tahona, the volcanic stone wheel that extracts the juice without shredding the fiber. Fermentation happens open-air in a cement tank with the agave fibers left in, which adds body and more cooked-agave character, and the wash is distilled twice in copper pot stills and proofed with deep well water to 40% ABV. It is unaged; Tequila Matchmaker reviewers describe it as clean with nothing added, earthy, and strong on minerality, with cooked agave, black pepper, lime and mint showing up in community tasting tags. The tahona and fiber fermentation make it a noticeably richer, more rustic pour than most highland blancos, and it works as well neat as it does in an agave-forward margarita or paloma.

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