Distiller Notes
2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition Double Gold Medal Winner
Master distiller, Sophie, wanted to make a different special edition to mark the occasion when she was expecting her son. She remembered a certain agave in the highlands of Jalisco which, even at full maturity, remains small. These agaves are known as criollos. Freshly harvested, this little blue agave smells intensely fruity and spicy, evocative of the complex flavors that it will acquire after cooking, fermentation and double distillation in a small still.
Tequila Blanco, or ‘white Tequila’, is also known as Tequila Plata, or ‘silver Tequila’. Its clear color is the result of being bottled immediately after distillation instead of being aged in oak barrels like Tequila Reposado or Anejo. Because of their youth and lack of barrel influence, Blanco Tequilas are thought to offer the purest expression of blue agave available, with notes of citrus and pepper. However, they can also be quite forceful and energetic on the palate without the moderating influence of time and wood.