Clase Azul Añejo Day of the Dead 2025

Clase Azul’s 2025 Día de Muertos release marks the final chapter of Nuestros Recuerdos—five years of limited editions exploring the emotional heart of Mexico’s most meaningful celebration. This last instalment, Recuerdos, leans fully into memory, ritual, and the intimate act of honouring those who shaped us. It’s a release built on storytelling as much as craft, and easily one of the most thoughtful expressions created by Master Distiller Viridiana Tinoco.

The tequila itself is an añejo blend aged between 12 and 38 months in first-use American whiskey casks. A portion of the agave was cooked in a traditional pit oven—an old method rarely used at scale today but capable of adding deep, smoky warmth. The unaged spirit began with a mix of masonry-oven and pit-oven agave, giving the base spirit a natural thread of fire, spice, and slow-roast character before it ever saw oak. Tinoco describes the process as a return to her grandmother’s kitchen, the wood-fired stove, the smell of tortillas, and the feeling of family around her—“a liquid act of love that turns nostalgia into presence.”

The sensory profile is grounded and layered: cooked agave, smoked wood, orange peel, caramel, and clove on the nose; orange marmalade, spice, cinnamon and toasted wood on the palate; a long finish that lingers with citrus and gentle smoke. Full-bodied, deep amber, and shaped specifically for slow sipping in a tulip glass.

Like all releases in this annual series, Recuerdos pairs a singular tequila with an equally intricate decanter. The 2025 bottle is finished in soft ivory tones—muted, reflective, and intentionally quiet. Around the base is artwork by Mexican-born, Australia-based artist Erika Rivera, illustrating a family ofrenda with cempasúchil petals, pan de muerto, papel picado, candles, sugar skulls, and the silhouettes of loved ones rendered as gentle, almost-present spirits.

The centrepiece is the ornament: a 24-karat-gold-plated locket holding an obsidian cameo. In Día de Muertos tradition, mirrors sit beside portraits so returning souls can recognise themselves. Inside the locket, the obsidian serves that role—a quiet acknowledgement of memory and presence. Surrounding the cameo are milagritos, each with symbolic meaning: a heart, limbs, eyes—small markers of gratitude for healing or protection. Every ornament required around 50 steps of artisan work at Milagros de Latón in Tesistán, Jalisco, using lost-wax casting, hand chiselling, repoussé, carving, polishing, custom patinas, and gold plating.

This release is strictly limited to 10,000 decanters worldwide and produced in a 1-litre format. The tequila is OK Kosher-certified.