Casa Obsidiana Anejo is a Mexican tequila made from 100% blue agave and aged 15 months in Chardonnay casks. Master Tequilero Francisco Quijano produces this tequila using French oak casks that previously held Boisset Napa Valley Chardonnay. It's bottled at 40% ABV and retails for approximately $330.
The entry is quite barrel forward, with a woody and tannic sensation that has a slight numbing quality. This one is all about the high notes. Tight baking spice flavors create a tingling, peppery quality reminscent of Pfeffernusse cookies.
While it’s got a traditional anejo aroma, the palate diverges to showcase immediately a strong punch of peppery agave — grassy, green, and quite herbal, the very notes I would have expected to dominate on the blanco, not the anejo. The fruit notes here are more bittersweet and peel-driven, with orange dominating over the lemon seen in the above expressions.