Provenance
The Vivanco family began cultivating highland agave during Mexico’s tumultuous post-revolutionary period of 1919-1929. In Don Feliciano Vivanco’s hometown of Arandas, Jalisco, subsequent generations of Vivancos have remained devoted to expanding the family’s agave plantations, and in 1994, the family dream of acquiring their own distillery was finally realized with the purchase of Destilería El Ranchito. With approximately 2,000 acres of estate-grown agave at their disposal, Sergio & José Manuél Vivanco have become renowned for producing rich, well-balanced tequilas. For ArteNOM Selección de 1414, the family brings back their unique and extraordinary tradition of fermenting the agave mash with field-extracted wild yeast for an unparalled display of agave terroir.
Tasting Notes
Color: very pale straw
Nose: vegetal chapparal, roasted sweet potato
Palate: salted vanilla cookie, allspice, mild chile heat
Data
Master Distiller: Sergio Cruz
NOM: 1414
Altitude: 6,709' / 2,045 m
Proof: 82.4
ABV: 41.2%
Brix: 27° - 28° from Tequilana Weber Agave grown at 5,400’ in municipio of Arandas, Jalisco
Process
Halved & quartered (cogollo-removed) agave steam-roasted without pressure in brick kiln ovens
36hr roast including 6hr pre-roast to melt-off bitters and 6hr cool-down
Juice extraction with gear-spindle crusher
Fermented in stainless steel vats using indigenous yeast strains with field presence of lime, orange & pomelo citrus pollens
Double-distilled in copper-pot stills to approx. 56% ABV and reduced with reverse-osmosis demineralized water
Four month aging in third-fill American White Oak formerly used for Bourbon Whiskey, bottled at 41.2% ABV
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