Fuenteseca Extra Anejo 21 Year Old Tequila 750ml

A 100% column-distilled tequila, the first lot in this blend was aged from February 1999 to September 2001 in dark-toasted French Oak barrels, previously used for California red wine. This wood is soft and its pores are fine, so its characteristics did not allow sawing the staves. To remove them, the trunk was cleft; meaning that the wood was cut following its veins, resulting in pores that run from one end of the stave to the other rather than through them, preventing the product from escaping the barrel. The second lot matured from September 2001 to July 2021 was held for 90% of that time in French barrels and 10% in American barrels. This French Oak (Quercus petraea)has a fine wood with low porosity that brings elegance and delicacy to the product. The American Oak had an uneven growth between spring and summer, so these barrels have more differences between its rings and the grain is thicker.