Porfidio Quercus shares its short ageing cycle with all tequila reposados, but what makes it outstanding is the quality of the oak and the optimally sized barrels in which the fragrant spirit is nurtured to delicate oak-seasoned perfection. In another first, Porfidio Quercus is Porfidio's, and the world's, first ever pure 100% agave spirit, whether tequila, mezcal or any other, with a zero methanol content.
Unsurprisingly, the best ‘Agave Australis’ only grows in the Australia Outback. That’s the raw material used to make this extraordinary and exquisite Australian agave spirit. So, think Auscal, not Mezcal! Beyond the obvious, Porfidio’s Auscal is a singular, single-agave, single-origin, single-vintage, single-cask vegan agave craft spirit. Differently to Mezcal, Auscal applies the Galenical Method to extract the best from the Agave. After distillation, this agave spirit is then aged for 3 years in Australian whisky casks until burgeoning to its sublime maturity. From seedling to bottle, it took 14 years to make this bottle.
There really is no agave distiller like Porfidio. Porfidio is a single-agave, single-origin, single-terroir, single-vintage, single-varietal, single-barrel, first-growth, vegan agave craft spirit that is made from cold pressed, raw agave juice, instead of cooked agave, the normal method. Porfidio is then aged in virgin oak barrels until burgeoning to its sublime maturity status of an Anejo-Extra. From seedling to bottle, it took 18 years to make this bottle. The Y2005 Vintage is remarkably pure and integrated and ranks as one of the finest Porfidio bottlings.
Porfidio Plata is for agave purists who prefer the suave polish that a decade of maturation in a flavor-neutral Inox 200-liter barrel provides, pushing the unoaked mysteries of the agave to the limelight. Nature works its magic on eight-year-old Blue Agave from Jalisco’s Tequila Valley, milled in the ancient tahona process. This makes Porfidio Plata a single-tahona, single-agave, single-vintage, single-origin, single-terroir unoaked yet fully matured singular pure agave spirit that exudes its inherent and unalloyed agavaciousness in every bottle. Another masterpiece from Martin Grassl at Destileria Porfidio!
Porfidio Fraxinus is a single-agave, single-origin, single-terroir, single-vintage, single-varietal, single-barrel, first-growth, vegan agave craft spirit that is made from cold pressed, raw agave juice, instead of cooked agave, the normal method. Porfidio Fraxinus is not aged in oak barrels, the industry standard, but, uniquely, in rare Fraxinus wood barrels made from a single tree. From tree seedling to bottle, it took 150 years to make this very limited edition bottling of 1,000 bottles only! This is probably the most extraordinarily elegant, dry and sophisticated bottling Porfidio has ever produced.
As traditional distillers of cult-status agave spirits, we chose cacti and succulents from the desert as our thematic botanicals for this singular barrel-aged gin. Our spectrum of aromatic elements contains: 1. fresh juniper berries; 2. agave flowers; 3. tuna cactus flowers; and 4. pitaya cactus flowers. These four fractionally distilled elements are then suffused together with unfermented agave stem juice, the Fifth Element, and aged for 5 years in virgin Castanea Sativa barrels, adding the Sixth Element to our Opus Magnum. Gorgeous on the palate, full-bodied, with a layered, elegant mouthfeel.