$105.00
A unique Añejo. Aged 18 months: complex, tasty, and bold, without being overly sweet or too heavy.
"Fortaleza is earthier, sweeter, and full of roasted agave flavor—it has what a wine snob might call terroir. It’s a tequila Don Cenobio would be proud to know his descendants produce." - Bloomberg
750ml & 80 Proof
| Tasting Notes | A beautiful expression, notes of caramel, butterscotch, black pepper, cooked agave, black pepper, a touch of vanilla and citrus peel. |
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Classic: sip it all the livelong day
Unexpected: Use in place of whiskey for a luxurious and distinctive Añejo Old-Fashioned |
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90 rating - Tequila Matchmaker panel & community |
| Production Notes |
Production methods are strictly old-world, as befits a distillery with this family history. Brick horno oven cooked, tahona stone crushed. Small wood vat for fermenting and distillation in copper stills. Then aged in American oak for 18 months. And that's it. Nothing more needed for one of the world's best añejos. |
| Terroir |
Tequiliana Weber agaves are harvested from El Valle (the lowlands) in the town of Tequila. The distillery is NOM 1493.
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| Founder Facts |
Fortaleza (which means fortitude) was founded in 2005 by Guillermo Sauza, the great great grandson of Don Cenobio Sauza. Don Cenobio is known as the father of Tequila, founder of the Sauza family of tequilas and the first person to import tequila to the USA in the late 1800s. Though the original distillery was sold in the late 1980s, Guillermo Sauza started anew in 2005. The present pays great tribute to the past, building on the old traditions to become what Tequila Fortaleza is today: an essential tequila for the tequila aficionado or connoisseur.
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