5 Sentidos Sierra Negra Tasting Notes

Details

• Location: Santa Catarina Albarradas, Oaxaca
• Agave: Sierra Negra / A. americana
• Maestro Mezcalero: Alberto Martinez Lopez
• Quantity: 143 liters, July 2019
• ABV: 48.5%
• Batch: SN11-19
• Tasting keywords: Roast agave, hot pepper, mineral.
• NOM: Uncertified
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Nose

A really clean cut of clay that comes across as brilliantly fresh.

Taste

Powerful and deep roast agave flavor with sparkling filigree and a spicy bite on the tail.

Production Details

• Agave sources: Cultivated Sierra Negra 12-15 years old.
• Roast: Roasted in earthen oven with encino oak for one week.
• Crush: Hand mashed with wooden mallets.
• Fermentation: Wild fermentation in stone tanks started with tepehuaje bark.
• Distillation: Mash and tepache double distilled in clay pot stills.