Agua Dios Reserve Ensamble Tequila
| Description: | AguaDios Ensamble - Co Founder Charley Pavlosky Winner 1. World Tequila Awards 2024 Gold "Best Ensamble" 2. World Tequila Awards 2024 Gold "Best Design" 3. World Tequila Awards 2024 Overall "World's Best Design" 4. World Tequila Awards 2024 Overall "Best Limited Edition" 5. World Tequila Awards 2024 Gold "Best Secondary Outer Packaging" 6. World Tequila Awards 2024 Silver "Bottle Design" The Aguadios Origin Story began some thirty years ago, when Master Curator Charley Pavlosky, as part of his ongoing exploration, respect and ultimately, love for the people, traditions and growing regions in Mexico, met and befriended a family in the highlands of the most beautiful agave fields he had ever laid his eyes upon. They were kind enough to welcome him into their home, share their food, stories, traditions and yes, some of their family-made agave spirit. At the very first sip, there in the gloaming light emanating from the sun swept ochre agave fields just beyond the veranda, he knew he'd tasted perfection in a glass. But, something was off. These fine Blue Weber Agave fields, while beautiful to behold, held back a secret that belied their delivery of such a fine spirit. As they rested in steppe formation, making their way up the slopes, heavy in clay soil minerality, light in their sandy foundation, these soils should never have even yielded such fine succulent plants so many years on, let alone produced such a delicious drink. Charley, coming from a homegrown background in Southwestern Pennsylvania with a solid knowledge of the land wondered, what was the secret? From humble origins come great things. As he bid them farewell, they gifted him with a bottle for his travels. There was no name nor label, only the clear glass, a cork and the precious liquid. Some months later in Los Angeles, while having dinner with his friend and ultimately mentor in the spirits business, the late G. Garvin Brown Iii, (Brown-Foreman, /Jack Daniels Distillery) Charley shared his experience with Garvin and some of the spirit. After taking a nice sip, marveling at the color, taste and nose, Garvin put the glass down and said simply, "If you can find some way of re-creating that, you'll make a lot of people happy." And then "But remember, do it the right way, don't cut corners, and deliver it yourself." Twelve years later, Charley found himself living on Bainbridge Island Washington, where he met and befriended Master Distiller and now AguaDios Master Blender Keith Barnes. When Keith set to making his own whiskey in 2006, Charley helped out, discovering the source for the Usda organic grains. After another twelve years and numerous accolades later, quickly becoming the most awarded organic craft distillery in the world through Keith's mastery, Charley again teamed up with his friend, this time, with the idea of realizing the dream that had sparked in his mind so many years before. But the mystery remained… What You Hold Is Truly One Of A Kind When Charley came to Keith to begin production of AguaDios, he brought with him his exclusive relationship with the family owners of the unique ranchero in Mexico growing spectacular Blue Weber Agave with what is quite possibly the highest brix content ever achieved. Keith brought his barrel finishing skills and his library of specialty barrels which includes Xo Caribbean Rum barrels, Islay Scotch Whiskey Barrels, Hand Toasted American White Oak barrels, and barrels hewn from Japanese Mizunara Oak, the rarest and most sought after barrel wood on earth, barrels made to his own exacting specifications by master coopers in Japan. Thus provisioned, they set out to make perfection in a glass. Upon his return to Mexico to formalize his relationship with the family ranchero in the highlands of Jalisco, Charley learned the secret the land had been holding for over a century. Due to the unique combination of having been hand tilled the old fashioned way for over a hundred years with no chemicals, pesticides or herbicides, the orientation to the sun throughout the seasons, and the way the gentle rains in the region worked their way down the slopes through the clay-heavy soils, the plants, throughout their fifteen years in the ground, secured their brix (sugar) content unlike any other, to say nothing of their absolute purity from a century's worth of annual alluvial runoffs, being set so high in the landscape, then sloping down to the verdant valley below where they are harvested by hand. Thus, the resulting juice from the agave is some of the cleanest and purest. And pure juice makes pure tequila. And just like Charley, when he had his first taste, over thirty years ago now, as you sip, we think you'll agree you've never tasted anything like this. And as we curate these relationships, as well as our own passions into that glass, you'll quickly see why we make the claim that no one can do what we do. They simply don't have access to the same fields, barrels, relationships, nor passion. They can try, but as art and alchemy prove again and again, this marriage is rare and once attained, never betrays its progenitor. No one else has access to these last remaining family fields with their unusual terroir and the brix content of any Blue Weber Agave. No one else has created such a rare and unique bouquet of finishing barrels. And as art and alchemy marry differently each time, this Inaugural Release simply can't be re-created. And you now hold one of only 1500 bottles, each hand-distilled, hand-barreled, hand-crafted, numbered, designed and delivered into your hands. Over forty-five years in all, of combined growth, passion and aging more than half a human lifetime- right there in your glass. One of the best and rarest ever made, without equivocation, without dispute, without peer, anywhere on this beautiful Earth. Out of nearly eight billion people. Only you. You lucky devil… |
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| Price: | $ 1990.00 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from 538 Wine and Spirits
| Address: |
538 South Flower Street Los Angeles, CA 90071 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 213-265-7221 |
First added to 1000 Corks on May 22, 2024.
