Destilado de Agave Tepemete (Maximino Cruz) 'Durango'

• Maestro Mezcalero Maximino de la Cruz
• Produced in Mezquital, Durango
• 100% Tepemete (Agave angustifolia)—a tiny, wild mountain subspecies of the classic Oaxacan variety
• Cooked in a conical earthen oven and milled by hand with an axe
• Fermented in pine with spring water
• Distilled twice using hybrid pot still made from wood, copper, and quiote
• 52% ABV (ABV may vary batch to batch)

Lamata and the Cruz family are doing incredible work in Durango. This super-rare subspecies of Agave angustifolia is mad tropical, thick with tobacco leaf, mango, and guava. Harvested wild and only occasionally produced, this batch yielded just 60 liters! Come get some.