From The Official Website
Jose Luis and the community have not traditionally consumed wood-aged aguardiente, so our aging program has become our space to explore our creativity.
Since we are a very small production, one of the first things we learned as we started to age Paranubes was that if you are not purchasing in large volumes it is difficult to source used oak barrels of good quality and verifiable provenance. Our answer was just to take a deep-dive, buy our own new barrels, and learn how wood evolves over time. As such, our Añejo expression continues to evolve with our barrels and tastes. Originally aged for 18 months to prevent the barrel flavor from taking over, we have now stretched that aging time to 24 months as the barrels have seasoned, and the vanillin and tannins have softened. If you spot an 18-month añejo, grab it as it was a brief moment early in our aging journey!
We decided to name our aged expressions añejo an an homage to the long history of Tequila aging, as our very first experiments in aging were in ex-Tequila casks. While we have since moved on to proprietary casks rather than ex-Tequila for our base Añejo, don’t worry we will still be bottling ex-Tequila-aged Paranubes as limited releases!