Clase Azul’s $1,450 Día de Los Muertos Tequila Pushes Collectible Spirits to Absurd, 24-Karat Heights
(Photo: Clase Azul)
Whether you’re at the club or the collector’s cabinet, Clase Azul’s tall-and-stout tequila bottles have come to define a new era of ultra-luxury, ultra-expensive agave spirits.
For the third year of its annual Día de Los Muertos-themed Nuestros Recuerdos collection, the brand has decked out its latest añejo with an over-the-top goody bag of seasonal decorations.
Compared to last year’s Nuestros Recuerdos drop — which featured a white ceramic decanter inscribed with intricate, punched paper-esque detailing — this year’s bottle is designed in the likeness of orange cempasúchil blossoms, a revered symbol of the dead in pre-Hispanic Mexico.
Adding to the glitz and glamor, the $1,450 limited-release is engraved with a 24-karat gold ornament. The spirit contained within is aged for 25 months in American whiskey casks before finishing in ex-Armagnac barrels, the oldest recorded liquor in the world.
(Photo: Clase Azul)
Master distiller Viridiana Tinoco says, “For this release, I selected casks which had previously contained Armagnac, a spirit with a controlled designation of origin and the oldest in France […] These cask’s unique character results from their provenance, Bas-Armagnac, where grapes grown in siliceous-clay soil end up imparting fine and complex fruit notes to the spirit.”
As usual, the $1,450 price tag can be interpreted as a suggestion rather than a guarantee. Last year’s bottle — which originally retailed for $1,050 — is now being hawked by liquor stores online in the range of $2,000 to upwards of $5,000.
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