Review: Amatitena Tequila Blanco
Amatitena Tequila Blanco is made from single estate agave using artisanal methods that date back to the early 1900’s. Master Distiller Don Alberto Partida is a fifth generation Maestro Tequilero and a 6th generation agave grower. He began distilling tequila at the age of 12 at the family’s Puerta de Hierro distillery. Each label denotes the field or parcel of land within the Partida Family Estate on which the agave was grown. It also notes the year the agave was planted. The agave from the bottle I’m sampling was grown on Las Tripitas and planted in 2018. The trimmed agave is cooked in a rare type of traditional stone oven which burns mesquite wood to cook the agave. The cooked agave is milled using a Tahona wheel. The juice and fibers are fermented in wooden tanks with spring water and ambient yeast. The spirit is double distilled in 19th century alembic copper pots and bottled additive free. Read more 