Review: El Gran Legado De Vita Tequila Blanco
After a 15 year career in strategic marketing in the entertainment industry Steve Vera went a different direction. First he acquiring land in the Michoacan Region to plant agave, an estate that now numbers 1 million agaves. He later partnered with Tequila Cascahuin to craft his own tequila. This distillery currently produces tequila for 17 brands including Cascahuin, Wild Common, Loco, Montagave, and Siembra Valles. El Gran Legado De Vita Tequila Blanco is made from 100% single estate tequilana weber blue agave grown on Steve’s own estate. The agave is cooked in masonry ovens for 3 days then cooled for 24 hours before the agave juice is extracted using 100% roller mills. The juice is fermented for four days in a stainless steel tank then double distilled. First in a steel alembic pot still then a copper alembic pot still. Before bottling the tequila is stabilized in stainless steel tanks for 15 to 30 days. The aroma leads with cooked agave, black pepper, and citrus. Additional time brings out earthy agave, mineral, anise, and mint. The sweet cooked agave entry is joined by citrus building to a lemon, lime, floral, and cooked zucchini peak. It fades with lemon, earthy agave, and sliced jalapeno pepper, and finishes with mint, mineral, lime peel, floral, cooked agave, and black pepper.
NOM: 1123
40% Alcohol
Agave Region: Michoacan
Score: 90
Award: Silver Medal