Tequila Ocho Transatlantic Barrel Select Anejo Tequila 750ml

Tequila Ocho Transatlantic Barrel Select Anejo is an Anejo Tequila from Tequilera Los Alambiques in Arandas, Jalisco Highlands, Mexico. This 2020 release rested twelve months in a combination of rum casks from Fiji and Panama and Maison Ferrand Cognac casks, bottled at 88.4 proof, additive-free.

Transatlantic was one of three releases in Tequila Ocho's 2020 Barrel Select Collection - a collaboration between Carlos Camarena, Tomas Estes, and Maison Ferrand master blender Alexandre Gabriel that swapped the standard very-used ex-bourbon barrels Ocho normally fills for combinations of rum and Cognac casks. The Transatlantic build bridges hemispheres: South Pacific and Caribbean rum casks alongside French Cognac casks. Production follows Tequila Ocho's traditional methods at NOM 1474: 100 percent fully-mature Blue Weber agave from a single Los Altos field, brick-oven slow cooking, roller mill extraction, open-air fermentation, and double distillation in small copper pot stills.

On the nose, it shows cooked agave layered with dried tropical fruit, brandy-like richness, and gentle oak. The palate brings sweet agave, molasses-driven rum sweetness, dried apricot, baking spice, and integrated Cognac character, and the finish carries a long, layered close.

The rum-and-Cognac build gives Transatlantic a dried-fruit weight and brandy-like richness the standard Anejo doesn't carry. It drinks well neat or over a single large cube.

• Size: 750ml
• Proof: 88.4 (44.2% ABV)
• Age: 1 Year in Fiji/Panama rum casks + Maison Ferrand Cognac casks
• Origin: Arandas, Jalisco Highlands, Mexico
• Distillery: Tequilera Los Alambiques (NOM 1474)