Taste: Baking spices, vanilla, butterscotch, cooked agave, dark chocolate, orange zest, pecan pie, toffee. This Tequila makes us salivate on the finish with dryness and a sweetness, making the drinker long for more.

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Total aging of almost 3 years, first in used Cabernet Franc wine barrels from the Loire Valley of France for a minimum of 14 months then laid into toasted American white oak previously used to age either Canadian whiskey or Tennessee rye whiskey, for a minimum of 14 additional months

Stainless steel fermentation with Mendoza wine yeast strains

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The mountain town of Jesús-María (elev. 6,788’) is tequila’s highest altitude agave region, and the El Pandillo Distillery is arguably one of the most forward-thinking and sustainable distilleries in the business. There, Felipe Camarena masterfully crafts this bright, aromatic tequila from stressed hillside agave plants, slowly roasted in brick ovens and macerated intact with fiber for a pronounced agave flavor.