Tequila Anejo, 'Seleccion de Bosques'

• Añejo tequila produced at Tres Mujeres in Amatitán, Jalisco (NOM 1466)
• Batch 1 from Santanera’s Selección de Bosques series
• Maestro Tequilero Sergio Cruz with Pablo Lara G.
• 100% Blue Weber (Agave tequilana) fully matured 7–8 years
• Agave harvested from two organic estates, El Llano Grande and Guajes
• Cooked in a traditional clay steam oven
• Milled using a mechanical roller mill
• Spontaneous fermentation using ambient yeast in open-air stainless steel tanks
• Distilled twice using stainless steel pot stills
• Blend of 19-month-old Añejo (El Llano Grande, 93.4%) and 100-month-old Extra Añejo (Guajes, 6.6%)
• Aged in a combination of barrels including new American and new French oak, and a 50-liter Colbert barrel produced from 400-year-old trees in Central France’s Tronçais forest
• Soft and supple with aromas of butternut, caramel, sweet potato, ginger, dried mango and guava, and subtle baking spice with a hint of vanilla, Mandarin orange, and sweet cream
• 757 liters produced
• Jay Kosher Certified
• Non-chill filtered; 40% ABV

Selección de Bosques is a gift of meticulous labor, time, patience, and nature’s generosity. Working in close collaboration with renowned French cooperage Nadalié Tonnellerie, the Santanera team selects specific trees—some as old as 400 years—from individual forests around the world, sustainably harvested and purchased at auction from the Office National des Foréts. The wood is processed over 36 months and toasted to unique specifications, ultimately comprising the barrels (dubbed Primera Calidad Bosques, or “premium forest quality”) that will house Santanera’s tequila.

Each batch of Santanera Selección de Bosques is individually numbered and labeled with unique production details, including age statements for both the agave and the barreling. Each label also links to an exclusive site detailing every aspect of the agriculture, process, and certifications behind every element of the batch.

Tasting Notes

Above all, Pablo Lara and Santanera are farmers of agave in pursuit of growing the highest-quality organic Agave tequilana possible. The quality of their distilled spirit begins in the fieldwith the selection of the most exceptional and mature agave—dubbed Primera Calidad Campo, or “premium field quality”—and the documentation of each parcel and its harvest.

“Seleccion de Bosques” is a gift of meticulous labor, time, patience, and nature’s generosity. The quality is undeniable, and the philosophy is admirable, but the truest hallmarks of Santanera are their passionate commitment to precision and transparency, which are hard to overstate and which are most clearly and painstakingly on full display in this radical new approach to aged tequila.

Each batch of Santanera Selección de Bosques is individually numbered and labeled with unique production details, including age statements for both the agave and the barreling. Each label also links to an exclusive site detailing every aspect of the agriculture, process, and certifications behind every element of the batch.