New & Notable: WSS Staff Tequila Favorites Fri, Mar 08, 24 | tequila new & notable New & Notable: Tequila Picks The Staff at Stewart's Wine and Spirits love Tequila and its history. Here are four new additions to our great selection of Tequila. Stop in for a great recommendation! Don Fulano Blanco Don Fulano Blanco is made with no additives, no funny business, just straightforward good natural tequila. Aroma is agave, black pepper, earth and vegetal. Flavor has a rich sweet mature cooked agave taste. Super enjoyable. This is a tequila that will make both hardcore aficionados and tequila beginners happy. Buy Mijenta Tequila Reposado One of the most trusted, respected and awarded tequila authorities in Mexico, Mijenta's Maestra Tequilera Ana María Romero brings over 25 years of experience in the tequila industry. Aged up to 6 months in a blend of American white oak, French oak and French acacia casks presenting a more mature and fuller expression with a long finish on the palate. Rich flavors of cooked agave, honey, vanilla with a mid-palate of cacao nibs. A long and generous finish on the palate. Buy La Gritona Reposado La Gritona Reposado is a subtle and distinctive 100% blue agave tequila distilled by Melly Barajas at her small distillery in Valle de Guadalupe in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico. They begin with 9-10 year old mature agave grown in the iron-rich red soil of the Jalisco highlands that has been cultivated at the height of it’s sugar production and is put into ovens within 24 hours of being cut. This reposado is aged for 8 months and then bottled in a hand blown bottle made from recycled Mexican Coke bottles. The nose is great. It’s full of green vegetal agave, minerals and some slight white pepper. Buy Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia Extra Anejo Reserva de la Familia is the Cuervo family’s award-winning 100% blue agave extra-Añejo tequila made in limited quantities. DOUBLE GOLD MEDAL winner at San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The superb spirit is dark amber in color with an aroma of oak, almonds, apples, olives and cinnamon. Its complexity of flavor features rich oak, toasted almonds, vanilla and cinnamon. Best served in a tequila flute, for full appreciation of its flavors, aroma, and velvety finish. Buy Tequila Tid-Bit: Every Tequila bottle has a four-digit code which is called NOMs, or Norma Oficial Mexicana, that you can find on the back of any tequila bottle. Each NOM gives the distillery location for where the tequila was made and produced. Salud! By larry@stewartswines.com Tags: tequila