Fortaleza Blanco Tequila 70 cl

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The bottles are also produced individually according to a 150-year-old tradition, making each one different from the others. Nose: Everything a good tequila should be with aromas of citrus, and rich cooked agave fill your nose in this unique and very special blanco Tequila. Using 150-year-old methods and traditional equipment, the agaves are slowly cooked in a brick oven over 2 days. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These cookies allow us to create statistical analyses to determine which articles are the most popular.

Aromas of citrus and rich cooked agave fill your nose in this unique and very special blanco tequila. Interesting fact: an old Sauza family distillery that was sold but the grandson, Guillermo Sauza has recently bought it and has up and running again, making tequila in the same way it was made over 100 years ago – with a small brick oven to cook the agave, a tahona to squeeze the juices out of the agave, wood tanks for fermentation, and the 2 original copper pots for distillation.Their traditional brick oven with its metre-thick walls, has a 15-ton capacity, and it takes around 4 hours to load the agave piñas by hand. Gradually, the small distillery became better known until it finally grew into a large empire and sold its products internationally. Also known as plata or silver, blanco Tequilas tell the story of their origins – in terms of the agave and the production methods used – with no oak to cover any faults. I sip it straight at room temperature with a home made sangrita chaser (blood orange, pomegranate molasses, chilli etc).

Bottled in hand-blown bottles, Fortaleza is as close as you’re going to get to what Tequila tasted like 100 years ago.Using the same stone crusher mill from when the business started in 1873, his aim was simple – to create a collection of exceptional tequilas, honouring the past, and galvanising their future.

The history of Tequila Fortaleza Blanco dates back to 1873, when it all began with a small distillery in Mexico known as Sauza Tequila. This tequila is made using 100% agave, but what sets it apart is the traditional method of crushing the plant with stones before it is fermented in open-air tanks and double-distilled in copper pots. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. This mosto is then transferred to wooden vats for a 5-day fermentation process, ready when the fermented must reaches around 5% ABV.The aim at Fortaleza is to make Tequila using the methods of a century ago – small brick oven, tahona, fermentation in wood and copper pots – and the result is a blanco Tequila of uncommon complexity and character, with the unmistakable agave character amplified in this cask strength bottling. Guillermo Sauza's family have a rich tequila-making history, with Don Cenobio a key figure in establishing tequila as we understand it today. Aromas of citrus, and rich cooked agave fill the nose, with layers of butter, olive, earth, black pepper, and a deep inviting vegetal complexity. Citrus oils and cooked agave jump out on the nose along with a hint of creaminess and a touch of pepper. Guillermo Sauza's family have a rich Tequila-making history, with Don Cenobio a key figure in establishing Tequila as we understand it today.