distillery · Jalisco — Tequila, Mexico
Fortaleza Tequila
Jalisco — Tequila, Mexico
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The reputation — the story that sells at the table
Fortaleza is the benchmark for tasting what tequila was before industrialisation. The tahona-ground agave releases more oils and fibres than mechanically milled agave — the resulting spirit has a complexity and texture that industrial tequila cannot match. Available at specialty spirits retailers in BC.
Practice
Guillermo Sauza is the 4th generation of the Sauza tequila dynasty — the family that owned Sauza Tequila (now Beam Suntory) for four generations. After selling the family company, Guillermo returned to the original distillery in Tequila, Jalisco and revived traditional production methods: cooking agave in traditional brick ovens (hornos) rather than autoclaves, stone tahona wheel grinding rather than mechanical mills, open wooden fermentation vats, and double-distillation in copper pot stills. Fortaleza ('Fortress') represents the traditional pre-industrial tequila process.
Positioning
premium · Specialty spirits retailers in BC — limited allocation
Importer lines
US — not yet · UK — not yet · Japan — not yet
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Each absence is a signal the demand ledger holds.
Where to get it — Pat's Rule
Origin: Fortaleza Tequila, Jalisco — Tequila — named here for every reader, everywhere, as the discovery authority.
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