Del Maguey Barril Mezcal

Del Maguey Barril Mezcal

Agave Type: Barril Region: Valles Centrales, Oaxaca Maestro Mezcalero: Florencio Don Lencho Laureano Carlos Sarmiento. Proof: 98 Proof, 49% ABV Tasting Notes: Spicy, floral carnation, tropical aromatics of gardenia and jasmine, ripe pear, dark fig, notes of wet green hay and forest floor. On the palate is caramel, round, soft, gentle, full-bodied notes. Roasted root vegetables, umami, terracotta, slate-like minerality and a touch of salinity. Details: made from semi-wild maguey Barril (the biggest of the Tobasiche, Madrecuishe, Cirial, Larga family). Roasted in a conical pit over hot rocks, buried under a cap of earth for three days, open-air fermentation for thirty days, double distilled with a bamboo clay still, the centuries-old Oaxacan organic, hand-crafted way.