Up within the atmospheric highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, exists not one however three very particular distilleries, Fabrica el Centenario, Fabrica La Victoria and Fabrica La Vencedora. It’s right here that the revered Siete Leguas tequila is made, and a very notable iteration of this notable spirit has lately been produced.
Siete Leguas has cause to have fun as 2022 marks its seventieth anniversary. Seventy years is a vital milestone, and requires a distinguished celebration. The model has determined to mark the event with the creation of the Siete Leguas Particular Restricted Version, a tequila made utilizing creole agaves.
Wild energy
As any tequila aficionado is aware of, all tequila have to be constituted of the Blue Weber agave varietal, and whereas these creole agave have a distinct identify, they’re nonetheless categorized as Blue Weber too. Nonetheless, the creole is completely different in that they develop wild, versus most Blue Weber, which are actually cultivated. The creole agave grows on hillsides and takes as much as 10 years to mature – compared to the same old seven years of ‘regular’ Blue Weber – and since the crops obtain much less water whereas rising, they’re smaller and have extra concentrated sugars.
All of this leads to a plant that produces richer, extra strong flavours, a trait that the Siete Leguas crew has labored exhausting to protect by way of its manufacturing processes because the creole agave take the journey from crops to liquid.
Following harvesting, they’re slowly roasted in stone ovens for 3 days, after which crushed utilizing the normal strategy of a tahona wheel. This big, heavy wheel constituted of volcanic rock is rolled over the agave, crushing the fibres and slowly extracting the sugars, making them prepared for fermentation.
Pure character
Whereas Siete Leguas is likely one of the few tequila manufacturers to usually incorporate some tahona-crushed liquid in its foremost tequila vary, mixing it with liquid extracted utilizing mechanised curler mills, this seventieth anniversary version makes use of tahona liquid solely. It’s a course of that leads to a richer, rounder flavour than the extra frequent, mechanised strategies utilized by most producers at present.
Wild yeast fermentation and double distillation in small copper pot stills each happen with agave fibres saved within the liquid, earlier than the ultimate product is bottled at a barely elevated abv of 42%.
The result’s a shocking spirit of unimaginable smoothness – a very exceptional tequila, match for a big anniversary.
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