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Over the past four years, luxury tequila brand Clase Azul has released an annual limited-edition Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) decanter. This year marks the fifth and last one in the series, and like past expressions it’s another beautiful (and expensive) ceramic bottle that contains a blend of aged tequila, some of which was made using a very traditional production technique.

Clase Azul was founded in 1997 and has become one of the leaders in the luxury tequila space over the past few decades. The brand’s bottles are handmade ceramic works of art, with special releases like this one often emblazoned with extra intricate designs. And they come at a steep price—the blanco starts at a a few hundred dollars, and prices can soar into the thousands for older and limited-edition tequilas.

As mentioned before, the Nuestros Recuerdos (“Our Memories”) series launched in 2021 to commemorate Día de Muertos, the Mexican holiday honoring the dead that takes place November 1 to 2. The previous releases in the series are as follows: Sabores (“Flavors,” aged in American whiskey barrels for over 14 months), Colores (“Colors,” finished in rhum agricole barrels from Martinique for six months), Aromas (“Aromas,” aged for 25 months in American whiskey barrels and finished in Armagnac casks), and Musica (“Music,” aged in American whiskey and scotch casks for a total of 26 months).

The final release is called Recuerdos (“Memories”), and in comparison it seems almost simple in its construction. Master distiller Viridiana Tinoco blended tequila aged from 12 to 38 months in first-use whiskey barrels together for this release (this makes it an anejo based on the youngest liquid in the blend). Also, at least some of the agave used to make the tequila was cooked in a pit oven, a traditional method that is more commonly used to make mezcal. Tinoco calls Recuerdos “a nostalgic return to my grandmother’s kitchen, to the wood-fired stove where she made tortillas.” The official tasting notes describe cooked agave, smoked wood, and caramel on the nose, followed by orange marmalade, clove, and cinnamon on the palate, with citrus and toasted wood on the finish.

Guadalajara native Erika Rivera designed the artwork on the ivory decanter, which portrays an ofrenda (a Day of the Dead altar). There’s also an ornament on the bottle shaped like a locket with 24-karat gold that contains an obsidian cameo. Milagros de Latón in Tesistán, Jalisco, constructed that piece, and the brand has produced others in the Nuestros Recuerdos series as well. Clase Azul Tequila Día de Muertos Edición Limitada Recuerdos is available starting this month (SRP $1,900) at select retailers, and you can find other expressions in the lineup available to purchase from websites like ReserveBar now.