Details
- Location: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Tobala, Bicuishe
- Maestro Mezcalero: Germaín Arellanes Arellanes
- Quantity: 1330 liters
- Lote: 60
- Bottle Number: 317
- ABV: 46%
- Tasting keywords: Pine, sweet water, granite.
- NOM: O129X
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Nose
Rich promos of roast agave, oceanic salt spray, with notes of lactic fermentation.
Taste
This ensemble is like the base section of the orchestra. It opens with a rumbling timpani then bursts of mineral highlights. In the background there are always these brooding flavors from the woody Bicuishe which are subsumed in the sweet minerality of the Tobala. This play of flavors make you sit and contemplate but there’s a real tension because the mezcal is so restrained that you’re always expecting something else to happen.
Method / Background Notes
Like its relative, the karwinsii ensemble, this one is an argument for a different form of ensemble. You rarely see this sort of combination, perhaps because it’s such a balancing act, and this label is a demonstration of possibility. The match of these two agaves with clay pot distillation is made in celestial places, it’s one of the more intellectual mezcals out there exactly because it makes you think.
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