A tequila made to sip
Don Julio 1942
- Type
- Tequila
- Expression
- Añejo
- Region
- Los Altos, Jalisco
- Process
- 100% agave
- Format
- 750ml
For this item we offer free delivery within 10km. Flat $25 shipping anywhere in BC, free over $250. Free pickup at 2752 West Broadway.
The Tequila
Named for the year it began
Don Julio 1942 takes its name from the year a young Don Julio González first began making tequila in the highlands of Jalisco. The expression was created in 2002 to mark six decades since that start, and built from the ground up as a tequila to sip rather than shoot.
The agave grows in Los Altos, the high red-soil country east of Guadalajara, where cool nights and altitude give the blue Weber agave a sweeter, rounder character. It is slow-roasted, distilled, and then rested in oak for a minimum of two and a half years, which is what gives 1942 its caramel-and-vanilla warmth.
The tall, fluted bottle is shaped after a single agave leaf. Pour it neat, give it a little air, and take it slowly: this is an after-dinner tequila, a celebration bottle, the kind you bring out when the moment calls for something with some age on it.
Jalisco, Mexico
Tasting Notes
Nose
Warm caramel and vanilla over roasted agave, with toasted oak, dried fruit and a soft note of baking spice.
Palate
Rich and rounded: cooked agave, butterscotch and warm caramel layered with vanilla, a touch of dark chocolate and gentle peppery spice from the barrel.
Finish
Long and warm, with lingering oak, cocoa and a clean agave sweetness that fades slowly rather than burns.
Acclaim
What the judges said
Wine Enthusiast
Ultimate Beverage Challenge
Wine Enthusiast98 pts
“The golden color and caramel scent hint at what’s to come: sweet agave flavor, a lingering whisper of smoke and mellow notes of tropical fruit, Sauternes and butterscotch.”
At a Glance
The House
The house of Don Julio
Don Julio González started making tequila in 1942, as a teenager, in the highlands of Jalisco. Over the following decades he built one of the names that taught the world to take tequila seriously, and to drink it neat.
The 1942 bottling is the tribute to that beginning: a small-batch añejo, patiently barrel-aged, presented in a bottle shaped after an agave leaf. It is made for slow sipping, not for the mixer.
- 1942The year it honours
- Los AltosHighland Jalisco agave
- 2.5 yearsMinimum añejo aging
How to Serve
Pour it at its best
Pairs with
- Dark Chocolate
- Aged Hard Cheese
- Grilled Steak
- Caramel Or Pecan Dessert
In the glass
- Neat in a snifter
- No mixer needed
- Lightly chilled if you prefer
- Sip slowly
Made for
- Celebration
- Milestone
- Collector Gift
- After Dinner
Free local delivery on this item
For this item we offer free delivery within 10km of the shop. Flat $25 shipping anywhere in BC, free over $250. Or pick up free at 2752 West Broadway.
From the Agave
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Decades behind this counter. Tell us what you are pouring it for, a celebration, a milestone, a serious gift, and we will tell you straight whether this is the bottle, or point you to something better.
