Destilado de Agave

• Destilado de Agave produced in Oponguio, Michoacán
• Maestro Mezcalero Don Miguel Perez Reséndiz with sons Miguel & Melitón
• Blend of Chino (A. cupreata), Alto (A. inaquidens), and Mexicano (Agave rhodacantha), each harvested after 2 years capón
• Cooked 3–5 days using pine & oak in a cylindrical pit oven made of brick
• Milled within 24 hours using a small mechanical grinder powered by a repurposed 4-cyllinder 1979 Datsun engine
• Fermented 6–15 days using spring water in rectangular clay pits lined with oak
• Distilled twice using a Filipino-style pot still made of copper and oak
• Rested 4 years 3 months in glass
• Orange zest, black pepper, fresh tobacco, stewed cherries, burnt cedar, sweet cream, strawberry rhubarb pie
• 1,210 bottles produced
• 50% ABV (ABV may vary batch to batch)

Putting it all together! This ensamble—a blend of all three agave varieties produced by the Perez family—is unique among the mezcales of Michoacán and performs a complex balancing act between the distinctive characteristics of the disparate species, marrying fruit and flowers, leather and tobacco, lactose with dry soil, in one concentrated package. Somehow simultaneously familiar and unlike anything else we’ve tried.

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