Montagave Blanco ‘Las Rocas’

Montagave’s brand owners combine a love for wine and tequila into new techniques, with Las Rocas an elegant example.

While most blancos aren’t aged, Las Rocas is rested for four weeks in a concrete egg similar to those used in old-school winemaking, and believed to be the only one in use for tequila, currently.

Aromas start light but come in gentle waves of sweet agave, minerals, citrus, and mint. 

Flavors follow with more of the same sweet agave, the minerals evolving into brine and wet cement, some anise, and a sharp pepper.

A spicy tingle lingers in your mouth but doesn’t follow down your throat.

The unique concrete egg “aging” delivers elevated minerality, softness from micro-oxygenation, and a slight colored hue without the oakiness of a barrel. Tequila and wine lovers rejoice!