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Código 1530

Código 1530
Añejo Tequila

Category: Añejo Tequila

Date Tasted:
Country: Mexico
Alcohol: 40%
92 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$129

Código 1530
Añejo Tequila

Category: Añejo Tequila

Date Tasted:
Country: Mexico
Alcohol: 40%
Medium dark clear copper color. Baked, attractive, creamy, minty, woody aromas and flavors of roasted agave, brown butter, melted butter, warm vanilla bean, drying grass, and dolce de leche with a velvety, moderately sweet light-to-medium body and a warming, intriguing, medium-length finish with nuances of toasted brown bread, spicy red pepper, melted butter, coconuts, ginger, graham cracker, milk chocolate, black pepper tincture, and black tea tannins. Has everything one wants in an Añejo; it’s complex, sweet, and has some heat.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: roasted agave, brown butter, melted butter, warm vanilla bean, drying grass, and dolce de leche
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with nuances of toasted brown bread, spicy red pepper, melted butter, coconuts, ginger, graham cracker, milk chocolate, black pepper tincture, and black tea tannins
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, on the rocks, neat and with cigars
Cocktail Cocktails: Paloma, Sangrita, Tommy's Margarita
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Has everything one wants in an Añejo; it's complex, sweet, and has some heat.

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Anejo Tequila

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Serve in a Copita
Añejo ("old") Tequila is aged in wooden barrels (usually old Bourbon barrels) for a minimum of 12 months. The best-quality añejos are aged 18 months to three years Beyond three years they can be called extra añejo.

Aging takes place in barrels formerly used to mature bourbon and rarely Cognac. Those aged in the latter vessels have more of a mellow edge, with aromas ranging from vanilla to tobacco, while those aged in former bourbon barrels often have notes of dill and coconut from the American oak. Añejo tequilas should be sipped neat, after dinner in a copita or snifter and perhaps enjoyed with a cigar.