Fortaleza Añejo
Fortaleza Añejo is a añejo tequila from Fortaleza, distilled at Destilería La Fortaleza under NOM 1493, in the Tequila Valley. The Index scores it 83 out of 95, which it rates outstanding.
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No organic certificate on file for this bottling.
Perennial critics' favorite
Estate Blue Weber, Lowlands. Our methodology favours estate control and mature agave.
Our blind panel of five scored it 92 of 100 at the tasting table. That figure feeds this pillar; it is not the score above.
Tasting notes
Nose. Caramel, baked agave.
Palate. Dried fruit, soft oak.
Finish. Dried fruit, soft oak.
Eighteen months in oak over the same tahona-crushed base. Rich and classical, with the agave still leading.