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| Tapatio Añejo |
| NOM: 1139 Distillery: Tequila Tapatio, S.A. DE C.V. - 'La Alteña' Importer: No Importer (MX Bottle) Area: Highlands Aged: 18 Months Barrel Type: American Oak Bottle Size: 1L Bottle Number: n/a Number of Distillations: 2 Alcohol Percentage: 38%/76 Proof Price: $50 Current Website: n/a |
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Info on the Back of the Bottle: Carefully elaborate product with the pride and
care of a family that jealously conserves the procedures of long ago in its elaboration.
Other Info: The date stamp on this bottle is 8/13/09.
"Don Felipe Camarena was born into a family that had distilled tequila since back in the
early 1800s. The family’s original distillery was destroyed and abandoned during the
Mexican Revolution. Don Felipe began his career by growing and selling agave plants
to other distillers. But since tequila making was in his blood, he started distilling his
own tequila, selecting only the ripest plants and using equipment from his family’s
original distillery.
In 1937, Don Felipe opened La Alteña Distillery in the mountainous region of Jalisco,
Mexico, known for producing the best blue agave. His passion for doing things just
right inspired his family to continue handcrafting Tapatio so it could be enjoyed by
future generations.
Don Felipe passed the business to his son, Felipe J. Camarena Orozco, who in turn
passed it on to his daughters, Lilianna and Gabriela, and to his son, Carlos, who today,
as Master Distiller, maintains the standards of excellence set down by his grandfather,
Don Felipe.
La Alteña Distillery reached a proud milestone on July 7, 2007 — 70 years of
handcrafting one of the world's finest tequilas.
‘Tapatio’ is a Mexican word referring to a man from Jalisco, the tequila-producing state
of Mexico. Women from the region are known as ‘Tapatias’. At the La Alteña distillery,
the methods of production are the same as they were a century ago, with a large
stone wheel (known as a Tahona) turned in a pit to crush the cooked agave plants.
The juice and agave fibres are then mixed in a barrel by foot before fermentation and
distillation.
The spirit from La Alteña is the only 100% blue agave tequila double distilled at 80
proof and bottled without any additional water to preserve the tequila's real flavour.
Other tequila makers distil to a high proof and then dilute the tequila with water to
bring it down to 80 proof.
Over the past four years the tequilas from La Alteña distillery (including the Tapatio,
Ocho and El Tesoro brands) have become a phenomenon in the UK on-trade and they
now enjoy an unrivalled reputation for quality, integrity and authenticity amongst
bartenders and tequila connoisseurs." -SpecialityBrands.com
Info on the Back of the Bottle: Carefully elaborate product with the pride and
care of a family that jealously conserves the procedures of long ago in its elaboration.
Other Info: The date stamp on this bottle is 8/13/09.
"Don Felipe Camarena was born into a family that had distilled tequila since back in the
early 1800s. The family’s original distillery was destroyed and abandoned during the
Mexican Revolution. Don Felipe began his career by growing and selling agave plants
to other distillers. But since tequila making was in his blood, he started distilling his
own tequila, selecting only the ripest plants and using equipment from his family’s
original distillery.
In 1937, Don Felipe opened La Alteña Distillery in the mountainous region of Jalisco,
Mexico, known for producing the best blue agave. His passion for doing things just
right inspired his family to continue handcrafting Tapatio so it could be enjoyed by
future generations.
Don Felipe passed the business to his son, Felipe J. Camarena Orozco, who in turn
passed it on to his daughters, Lilianna and Gabriela, and to his son, Carlos, who today,
as Master Distiller, maintains the standards of excellence set down by his grandfather,
Don Felipe.
La Alteña Distillery reached a proud milestone on July 7, 2007 — 70 years of
handcrafting one of the world's finest tequilas.
‘Tapatio’ is a Mexican word referring to a man from Jalisco, the tequila-producing state
of Mexico. Women from the region are known as ‘Tapatias’. At the La Alteña distillery,
the methods of production are the same as they were a century ago, with a large
stone wheel (known as a Tahona) turned in a pit to crush the cooked agave plants.
The juice and agave fibres are then mixed in a barrel by foot before fermentation and
distillation.
The spirit from La Alteña is the only 100% blue agave tequila double distilled at 80
proof and bottled without any additional water to preserve the tequila's real flavour.
Other tequila makers distil to a high proof and then dilute the tequila with water to
bring it down to 80 proof.
Over the past four years the tequilas from La Alteña distillery (including the Tapatio,
Ocho and El Tesoro brands) have become a phenomenon in the UK on-trade and they
now enjoy an unrivalled reputation for quality, integrity and authenticity amongst
bartenders and tequila connoisseurs." -SpecialityBrands.com
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