Fuenteseca Reserva Extra Añejo 21 Year
Fuenteseca Reserva · Destiladora González Lux (Grupo Cava de Oro)
A meditation in a glass — one of the oldest tequilas in existence, and proof that patience, when applied with restraint, can transform agave into something closer to grand cru brandy without erasing its soul.
Nose
An intricate perfume of aged oak, dried fig, toasted pecan, and worn saddle leather, laced with faint pipe tobacco, candied orange peel, and a whisper of cooked agave still hanging on after two decades in wood.
Palate
Silken and contemplative — layered notes of dark caramel, roasted coffee bean, cinnamon bark, dried apricot, and cocoa nib, with the agave's earthy sweetness reasserting itself mid-palate against a scaffolding of French oak tannin.
Finish
Exceptionally long and warming, drifting through dark chocolate, tobacco leaf, clove, and lingering vanilla oak — the kind of finish that rewards silence.
- Agave
- 100% Blue Weber Agave (Agave tequilana Weber var. azul), sourced from Los Altos de Jalisco
- Production
- Autoclave-cooked agave, roller mill extraction, fermentation with proprietary yeasts, double distilled in stainless with copper components, then aged 21 years in a rotation of French Limousin oak, American oak, and Canadian oak barrels.
- Region
- Jalisco Highlands, Mexico
- Cooking Method
- Autoclave-cooked agave, roller mill extraction, fermentation with proprietary yeasts, double distilled in stainless with copper components, then aged 21 years in a rotation of French Limousin oak, American oak, and Canadian oak barrels.
- NOM
- NOM 1489
- Additives Free
- Yes
Cocktail Suggestion
Neat. Full stop. — Pour 1.5 oz into a tulip-shaped copita or Glencairn glass. Rest for ten minutes at room temperature. Sip slowly over the course of an hour. To dilute or mix this expression would be to erase two decades of quiet work.
Food Pairing
Aged Manchego with membrillo, dark chocolate truffles dusted with sea salt, or a single square of 85% cacao at the close of a long evening.
Distilled in 1995 at a now-quiet Highland facility and coaxed through 21 years in a rotating series of French and American oak barrels, this Fuenteseca Reserva is the patient work of master distiller Enrique Fonseca — a fourth-generation agave grower who set aside these barrels long before extra añejo was even a legal category.
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