Creador Mexicano Tasting Notes

Details

• Location:  San Bernardo Mixtepec, Oaxaca
• Agave: Mexicano / Agave rhodacantha
• Maestro Palenquero: José Alberto Pablo
• Quantity: 100 liters / 133 bottles
• Vintage: January 2021
• Batch: JAME0422
• ABV: 49.2%
• Tasting keywords: Leather, honey
• NOM: NA uncertified agave spirit.
• Available in Texas.

Nose

Wet leather, honey.

Taste

What you smell is what you get. This is full of an elegant honeyed sweetness with leather and clove. It has a light body with a nice, effervescent charge.

Production Details

• Agave sources: Cultivated Mexicano from Zimatlán de Alvarez, Oaxaca.
• Roast: Roast: Roasted underground for 3-5 days in river rock lined ovens.
• Crush: Hand mashed with mallets (mazos) in a hollowed out tree trunk (canoa).
• Fermentation: Fermented for 3-5 days in half-buried 90 liter clay pots.
• Distillation: Twice distilled in 60 liter clay pots.

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