Don Valente Licorera Anejo Tequila

Don Valente Licorera Anejo Tequila is a 750mL anejo from Don Valente of El Arenal, Jalisco — the house anejo in the Licorera presentation, the brand's decanter-style bottling ("licorera" is Spanish for a liquor decanter). Per the producer copy carried on this bottling, it is rested more than a year in fine white American oak barrels, arriving dark amber with intense golden hues and a thick body. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.

• ABV: 40% (80 proof) — brand pattern for US bottlings; the shared producer copy prints both 35% and 40%, and no Licorera-specific source resolves it
• Size: 750mL
• Age: More than 1 year in white American oak, per the producer copy on this bottling (anejo minimum is 1 year)
• Origin: El Arenal, Jalisco, Mexico — brand-level record: NOM 1450, Marco Antonio Jauregui Huerta (not verified on a Licorera listing)
• Presentation: Licorera (decanter-style) bottling of the house anejo

The House Anejo in Decanter Dress

Don Valente is a small, family-run producer in El Arenal, in Jalisco's Tequila Valley lowlands, whose brand-level record describes traditional production — brick-oven cooking, roller-mill extraction, stainless-steel fermentation and double distillation in copper pot stills. The Licorera bottlings are the house's presentation line: the same producer anejo copy travels with this bottle — more than a year in white American oak, dark amber colour, thick body — in a decanter-format bottle made to be kept and poured from. Where the Artesanal line dresses the anejo in a hand-painted label, the Licorera dresses it in glass. Browse the house on the Don Valente vendor page and more anejos in our tequila collection.

Tasting Notes

Per the producer's anejo notes carried on this bottling: an aroma of cooked agave, vanilla and fine oak; flavours of intense wood, cooked agave, almonds, nuts and vanilla. No Licorera-specific tasting notes exist in any source found — these are the house anejo's notes, attributed as such, not a distinct note set invented for this bottle.

How to Enjoy

Pour it from the decanter neat, or over one large cube — and leave the bottle on the bar, which is rather the point of the Licorera format. More anejos are in our tequila collection and the full range in our spirits collection.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Licorera bottling?
"Licorera" is Spanish for a liquor decanter — this is the house Don Valente anejo in the brand's decanter-style presentation bottle, rather than a different recipe with its own published specs.

How long is Don Valente Licorera Anejo aged?
More than a year in fine white American oak barrels, per the producer copy carried on this bottling — past the one-year anejo minimum.

Where is Don Valente made?
In El Arenal, Jalisco (Los Valles / Tequila Valley). The brand's Matchmaker record is NOM 1450, producer Marco Antonio Jauregui Huerta — stated here as brand-level provenance, as no Licorera listing names a NOM.

A decanter bottle with a traditional anejo inside — order Don Valente Licorera Anejo Tequila online from Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA.