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Filled with wonderful images of the past days in Guanajuato and Tequila, we wanted to make the most out of our last day in the heart of the land of “tequila”. Our past visit to Tequila had special memories of visiting the very small distillery “Tres Mujeres”. To contrast our visit to Casa Herradura, we decided to return to Tres Mujeres hoping to find the beautiful agave fields we remembered from our last visit. Arriving we found that the past 4 years had been very good to this little distillery as they had a brand new facility.

Still a small family operation they’ve created beautiful new little distillery.

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We were invited to climb into the furnace oven as they loaded it with agave pineaples. Mike checks out the tequila as it flows from the still.

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One of the ladies of Tres Mujeres (3 Ladies in Spanish) gave us a tasting of their top of the line tequilas. Frankie purchased their best Anejo for our 40th anniversary celebration. Right, some of their art.

Agaves take 7 years to mature and the beautiful plants we remembered from our last visit had been harvested and replaced with young plants so we were still in search of a special field of agaves to photograph.

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La Cofradia

During our tour at Casa Herradura, Angel our guide, suggested to tour a another smaller distillery near by the town of Tequila called La Cofradia meaning the brotherhood.. This facility is also family owned and sells tequila that is branded all over the world. Arriving we found our agave field we were looking for. Gill and I jumped from the van in photo heaven.

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The El Jimador (agave harvester) was working the field cutting small sprouts for replanting. The La Cofradia facility was created 10 years ago from a very old estate with huge 200 year old mango trees.

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It turned out to be a great place to have lunch among the mango trees and agave plants. They even have rooms available for anyone that wants to be close to tequila being born. No pictures of the tequila distillery, rather some of the unique areas of Cofradia like the bottle ceramic works, art gallery and very cool barrow cave built around the huge mango trees.

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Racks of unfired bottles. Artists painting bottles after 1st firing.

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Lots of very unique finished bottles. They also make beautiful kitchenware. Brian demonstrates how the el jimador cuts agave. We were afraid he might loose a toe.

We had to pose in front of the largest bottles of tequila in the world. These are in the Guiness book of records. Gill, don’t you love her..

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Last years winner of most beautiful tequila bottle. Agave Indian art.

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Mango trees growing through the ceiling of the barrow cave. Barrow caves have such a great aroma.

A final toast to the day and our wonderful adventure. I think I can speak for everyone.. We can not thank Heather enough for taking us to her Guanajuanto. What a wonderful week with wonderful friends.

I’m writing this as we drive to Phoenix after spending the night in Guadalajara and flying back to Mexicali. Everybody is home safe and sound with memories of an awesome trip.

Next Up “Birthday Week” — Until the next Update.