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Tequila in Tamaulipas

Only an hour away from Tampico in the municipality of González, is Tequilera La Gonzaleña, producer of Tequila Chinaco. This company after a long trial obtained the extension of the Denomination of Origin in September of 1976 benefiting 11 municipalities of Tamaulipas. This process was headed by Don Guillermo González Diaz Lombardo and a group of agriculturists who followed him in this adventure, in order for our state to also produce tequila.

Tequilera La Gonzaleña follows an artisan process which has made Tequila Chinaco a very appreciated tequila by great connoisseurs, mostly in the United States. It is considered to be the first Super Premium tequila that arrived to this country in 1983.

The process initiates with the arrival of the agave jimado plant. This plant is called piña or pine when its leaves are tore out. These pines are cut in three of four parts depending on its size. Then it is filled with a sterilizing unit and cooked for 10 hours.

The cooked pines are placed in a shattering machine and taken to a set of bands and to a group of 4 mills where its juices will be extracted. These juices will pass through the fermentation tanks and be called mostos, transforming their sugars into ethylic alcohol.

After 3 or 4 days of being at rest in the fermentation tanks, it is time for distillation which takes place in two stills in order to obtain tequila with 55°. This tequila is divided into to groups. The first group is used to produce white tequila by adding double distillated water to lower its alcoholic graduation to 40° GL. It is then bottled and ready for its sale in the international markets. The second part begins its ageing process in European white oak kegs of 200 liters certificated by the Regulating Tequila Counsel which labels them with the kegging date.

After 8 months, these kegs will be opened with matured and rested tequila inside. To obtain aged tequila, it must spend 30 months inside the keg and for extra aged tequila, also known as black tequila, 60 months.

Tequilera La Gonzaleña is the 27th registered factory and it has 33 years participating in the national and international markets. Its artisan process and its high quality has taken it to have great acceptation and recognition in the United States.

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