- El Tesoro’s 2025 Mundial Yamazaki Edition marks the primary collaboration between the legendary tequila home and Japan’s oldest malt distillery, utilizing Yamazaki casks to age El Tesoro Añejo for 12 months.
- Aged in 12-year-old sherry and wine barrels from Yamazaki, the limited-edition tequila is restricted to about 30,000 bottles.
- The Mundial Collection continues El Tesoro’s custom of innovation, with every annual launch exploring distinctive cask finishes in partnership with iconic distilleries corresponding to Laphroaig, Knob Creek, and Basil Hayden.
In a crowded tequila market, El Tesoro stands out as one of the crucial revered producers, famend for its traditional highlands-style tequila and conventional strategies handed down by means of generations. Since 2021, the model has ventured into extra experimental territory, releasing an annual, limited-edition bottling as a part of its “Mundial Collection.”
The single-barrel expressions use 100% estate-grown agave tequila aged in casks from esteemed distilleries all over the world that share the same emphasis on high quality and craftsmanship. The sequence helps to reveal how barrels can enormously affect a spirit’s taste.
El Tesoro’s Mundial sequence has showcased a wide range of cask finishes: It debuted with Laphroaig, resting a reposado for 3 extra months in 10-year-old Scotch whisky casks, then aged a blanco for a full yr in the identical barrels. In 2023, it launched an añejo matured for 12 months in charred-oak Knob Creek rye barrels, adopted in 2024 by a Basil Hayden collaboration — a reposado aged six months in toasted oak that beforehand held the high-rye bourbon.
The newest launch is El Tesoro Mundial Yamazaki Edition, a collaboration between the historic tequila maker and Japan’s oldest malt distillery. This restricted launch marks the primary time El Tesoro has been rested in Yamazaki casks.
Since launching the Mundial Collection, former El Tesoro grasp distiller Carlos Camarena, a third-generation tequilero and grandson of Don Felipe Camarena, founding father of the famed La Alteña distillery, has collaborated carefully with every model’s distillery staff to craft a particular expression. Carlos’ youthful sister, Jenny Camarena, took the reins as grasp distiller at El Tesoro earlier this yr. She witnessed firsthand how her brother’s collaboration with Shinji Fukuyo, Suntory’s fifth-generation chief blender, unfolded to create the current Mundial Yamazaki Edition.
“Carlos has been dreaming about this for many years,” says Jenny. “But we were aware that it was really complicated to get those barrels.”
Once the chance to work with the House of Suntory got here to fruition, Carlos and his staff went to work operating trial samples with staves taken from Yamazaki barrels. Fukuyo visited the distillery, met with the El Tesoro staff, and tasted the samples earlier than giving his last approval to maneuver ahead with the undertaking.
“We spent a whole evening [tasting the samples],” says Jenny. “And he was like, ‘OK, I like what I’m tasting, so let’s do something together.’ That moment was like, ‘Wow. This is really happening.’ When we got the news that we were getting the barrels, we didn’t even know if it was going to be an añejo, a reposado, an extra añejo, or what, which is great that we felt that trust coming from the whole House of Suntory team.”
Fast Facts: 2025 The World Treasure Yamazaki Edition
ABV: 42%
Production and Maturation: El Tesoro Mundial Yamazaki Edition is a bottling of the El Tesoro añejo expression, aged for 12 months in 12-year-old Yamazaki casks from Japan that previously held sherry and wine.
MSRP and Availability: The El Tesoro Mundial Yamazaki Edition launch is restricted to about 30,000 bottles (2,500 9-liter instances) and might be out there nationwide at a advised retail worth of about $200.
With Fukuyo’s enter, El Tesoro agreed to make use of its añejo expression, aged for 12 months in 12-year-old Yamazaki barrels that beforehand held sherry and wine, for the Mundial Yamazaki Edition. The result’s a particular tequila that expresses each legendary spirits manufacturers.
“I think that the main characters are the berries,” says Jenny. “Some dried fruits, like dates, fig notes, and a certain spiciness. I can find certain notes of ginger, which I don’t find in the regular añejo. It’s also really floral, with some refreshing aspects that come from the agave. But I believe that they complement each other really nicely.”
The 2025 El Tesoro Mundial Yamazaki Edition has already hit cabinets nationwide as a limited-edition launch. The advised retail worth is $200.
