Destilado de Agave, Cupreata, 'Silvestre'

• Destilado de Agave produced in Topiltepec, Guerrero
• Maestro Mezcalero Silvestre González Garcia
• Produced from 100% Papalote ( cupreata)
• Cooked in an earthen pit oven; milled with a small mechanical shredder
• Fermented in white pine (ayacahuite) tanks using spring water
• Distilled twice using traditional copper pot stills
• Earth, cinnamon, nutmeg/baking spice, strawberry shrub, fresh biscuits, dates, baked apple turnover, candied yam, dusty bricks
• 47.3% ABV

A dense and earthy example of the species, built on a backbone of baking spice and apple pie in the best way. Like coming home to a toasty oven and a glass of fine spirits, this is mezcal for cold weather if there ever was one.

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