Aged eighteen months, Excellia Anejo delivers dessert wine aromas (ripe & sweet grapes, dried apricots & pears) with evolving notes of rancio, baked spices & herbs, leather & sandalwood. The palate is intense & round with a strong & tannic woodiness along with fresh spices, tingling pepper & sweet charcoal notes. The long finish is gradual & revelatory with balanced lingering tones of cocoa & orchard. Excellia is a unique anejo tequila that spurns the easy, standard anejo-tequila road of vanilla-&-honey in favour of a great, challenging flavour profile that gives the anejo category what it has until now lacked: credibility as great, aged tequila, without concessions to sweetness. Excellia Anejo is truly a world class sipping tequila with deep & elegant spicy wood character. Jean-Sebastien Robicquet.