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Añejo Tequila

Category: Añejo Tequila

Date Tasted:
Country: Mexico
Alcohol: 40%
90 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$37

Espolón
Añejo Tequila

Category: Añejo Tequila

Date Tasted:
Country: Mexico
Alcohol: 40%
Light gold color. Aromas and flavors of caramel and vanilla, brown sugar, marzipan, and candied pecan with a round, bright, dry-yet-fruity medium body and a tingling, captivating, medium-length finish with accents of sweet potato pie with marshmallow, milk chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker, and palm hearts and grilled artichoke hearts. Like drinking a sweet and spicy vanilla glazed praline.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: caramel and vanilla, brown sugar, marzipan, and candied pecan
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with accents of sweet potato pie with marshmallow, milk chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker, and palm hearts and grilled artichoke hearts
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Finish Finish: Normal
Enjoy Enjoy: neat, on the rocks and with cigars
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Like drinking a sweet and spicy vanilla glazed praline.
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The Importer

Campari America

The Importer
1114 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
USA
1 212-207-4350
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Anejo Tequila

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Serve in a Copita
About
Añejo Tequila
Añejo ("old") Tequila is aged in wooden barrels (usually old Bourbon barrels) for a minimum of 12 months. The best-quality añejos are aged 18 months to three years Beyond three years they can be called extra añejo.

Aging takes place in barrels formerly used to mature bourbon and rarely Cognac. Those aged in the latter vessels have more of a mellow edge, with aromas ranging from vanilla to tobacco, while those aged in former bourbon barrels often have notes of dill and coconut from the American oak. Añejo tequilas should be sipped neat, after dinner in a copita or snifter and perhaps enjoyed with a cigar.

Espolón Añejo Tequila rating was calculated by to be 90 points out of 100 on 4/13/2023. Please note that MSRP may have changed since the date of our review.