Review: Cierto Private Collection Reposado Tequila
Cierto Private Collection Reposado Tequila was founded by tequila connoisseur Todd Chaffee and crafted at La Tequilena. Todd worked with Master Distillers Sergio Mendoza and his uncle Enrique Fonseca, 4th and 5th generation Agaveros whose family has grown agave since the 1800’s. The Blue Weber estate grown agave from the Highland region of Atotonilco Mexico are carefully selected. The trimmed agave are hand cut and slow cooked in low pressure ovens. Once cooled the juice is extracted and fermented with a propriety yeast and twice distilled in alembic copper pots and Coffey column stills. The spirit is filtered, and pure water filtered through ancient volcanic springs is slow blended with the tequila to reduce to proof. Every bottle of Cierto is oxygenated twice. The spirit is aged for 11 months in French Limousin oak casks previously used to mature wine, cognac, and armagnac. Each Cierto expression is blended with aged tequila from the Fonseca family’s private library containing some of the oldest and rarest tequilas in existence. After blending and tasting hundreds of options from the Fonseca’s vast library of aged tequilas, they landed on 8 expressions. Four in their Private Collection and four in their Reserve Collection. The aroma leads with cooked agave. Additional time brings out oak, caramel, vanilla, and cinnamon. The sweet roasted agave and oak entry has a creamy mouth feel. Cinnamon and vanilla arrive building to an agave and salted caramel peak. It fades with cinnamon, a hint of milk chocolate, and grape, finishing with citrus, oak, agave, wood spice, subtle mint, a sprinkle of pepper, and warm cinnamon. The production details make this a unique tequila. The flavor profile make this a very special tequila.
NOM: 1146
Region: Highland
Score: 94
Award: Gold Medal