Viva Mexico Madera Blanco Tequila

Feliciano Vivanco y Asociados, S.A. de C.V. (NOM-1414), Arandas, Mexico

 

108pf

 

For this expression, Madera, meaning “wood” in Spanish, references the traditional wooden vats, or tinas, used for fermentation. These large pine vats each held 2,000 liters of mosto fermented with the milled agave fibers and a proprietary wild yeast propagated at the distillery. The long open-air fermentation also introduced ambient yeasts, drawing upon the influence of the distillery’s surrounding fruit trees, which include orange, lime, grapefruit, banana, and pomegranate. With so much bold roasted agave and tropical fruit flavor, this massive expression was bottled at a 54% ABV to best deliver the full intensity of the contributing land, air, and agave.