PM Spirits Project Tequila Blanco Single Oven 1

PM Spirits Project Tequila Blanco Single Oven 1

Distilled by Juan Antonio Gonzales at Grupo Tequilero Mexico. This Tequila is the product of one single oven, or horno. Distilled from 100% estate-grown Blue Weber Agave. Zero Additives.

The blue agave plant can reach eight feet in height and matures at around six years old. Sugars collect in the core of the plant, the pia. Producers chop up the pias and cook them in large ovens, then press the juices from the cooked pieces and ferment them with yeast. This blue agave juice may make a 100 percent agave spirit, or the producer may add up to 49 percent non-agave sugars, such as sugar cane or corn sugars, to make a mixto or regular tequila.

The fermentation length, temperature and yeast affect the development of flavor compounds or congeners that produce a specific tequila style. Some producers add pia fibers called bagasse to the fermentation vessel to enhance the complexity of the spirit. Regulations demand that tequila be double-distilled in pot stills, or produced with a continuous still that has at least two columns.