Caramel, vanilla, butterscotch and cooked agave aromas practically jump from the glass in this highly-praised and perfectly-aged aejo. This tequila is so rich and complex that some people are even able to detect pineapple, peach, orange blossom, nutmeg, and raisin in the nose.

Once in your mouth, the full cooked agave experience continues with a thick and oily texture that coats your mouth in a very soothing way. Butterscotch, caramel, toffee, citrus, and hazelnuts are common flavors that people identify.

Fortaleza Aejo is a prized treat for any tequila lover.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Caramel, vanilla, butterscotch and cooked agave aromas practically jump from the glass in this highly-praised and perfectly-aged Anejo.

Palate: The full cooked agave experience continues with a thick and oily texture that coats your mouth in a very soothing way. Butterscotch, caramel, toffee, citrus, and hazelnuts are common flavors that people identify.

Finish: Elegant and lasting.

Eighteen months in American oak give Fortaleza Aejo its color, but this aejo tequila still leads with agave. The barrel time starts from the same slow process as every release from the Sauza family’s Destilera La Fortaleza stone-oven-cooked blue agave, tahona-crushed, fermented in wood, distilled twice in copper pots so the caramel, vanilla, and butterscotch the oak brings never bury the cooked-agave core. Baking spice and roasted nuts fill out the palate, and the finish runs long, warm, and softly sweet. It is additive-free: no coloring, no oak extract, no sweetener. Pour it neat in a snifter after dinner, right where an aged whiskey would otherwise go.