Mezcal, Coyote, 'Chichicapam'

• Maestra Mezcalera Berta Vasquez
• Produced in San Baltazar Chichicapam, Oaxaca
• 100% Coyote (Agave lyobaa)
• Cooked in an earthen oven and milled by tahona
• Open-air fermented
• Distilled twice in a copper pot still
• This mezcal is elegant, herbaceous, fruity, and hard to put down, expressing strawberry seeds, fresh linen, coriander, pink peppercorn, and guava.
• 47% ABV (Alcohol will change from batch to batch) 

The unusual term Coyote can refer to several species and subspecies of agave across Mexico. In this instance, it refers to a recently classified hybrid variety: the result of cross-pollination in the wild between Agave karwinskii and Agave potatorum. Whatever mystic jam session brought these two together, we are forever grateful. This mezcal is a tribute to both the newly minted species and to the skill of its distiller.

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