Amatitena Reposado Tequila

Description

DISTRIBUTOR NOTES:

OVERVIEW: Aged for just 2 minimalist months in large-format French oak barrels, Amatitea Reposado trades in the bold power, passion, and pride of the blanco expressions for an easyeven laid-backcharacter, offering a crowd pleaser that only whispers at the wildness it sprang from.

TASTING: Refreshing and uncomplicated, yet with enough grace and nuance to remain endlessly engaging, this reposado balances herbs and fruit and pastry with aplomb. Aromas of subtle butterscotch, fresh brick powder, light resin, and green pea shoots transition to a palate that explodes with sweet roasted carrot, raspberry sherbet, soft baking spices, wet tile, faint orange rind, honeydew, and a finish of crme brle and golden beets. Deliriously easy to drink.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER: “Recently named a UNESCO World Heritage site, the community of Amatitn, Jalisco, is home to the oldest recorded evidence of employing fermenters and stills to make agave spirits (aka vino de mezcal) in all of Mexicoparticularly in the famous valley below the ancient Volcano Tequila. Embracing the future of that heritage by returning to tequilas roots, Amatitea aims to express this historic terroir with as much depth and integrity as possible. The brand is unique in todays market: a single estate tequila, made exclusively using artisanal methods that date back to the early 19thcentury or before.

Fifth-generation maestro tequilero Don Alberto Partida began distilling around the age of 11 or 12 at his familys fabrica, Cava de Oro (NOM 1477). After achieving degrees in industrial engineering and tequila production, Alberto began experimentingbuilding on his familys modern methods by incorporating older, historical techniques, or sourcing unusual barrels for aging, such as ex-French wine casks. Today, Alberto stands at the front lines of a growing tequila renaissance, a movement enamored with both historical distilling methods and the intricacies of terroir in agave.”