La Remilgosa Durango Sotol Tasting Notes

Details

• Location: Nombre de Dios, Durango
• Sotol: Dasylirion Texanum
• Maestro Sotolero: Gilberto Roldán
• Quantity: 132 bottles (Bottle 126 tasted.)
• Batch:202208
• ABV: 51%
• Tasting keywords: Dried apple, almond, rosemary.
• Uncertified Sotol Spirit

Nose

Vivid aromas of dried apple, wet cardboard, and almonds.

Taste

Very restrained and subtle. A continuation of the nose with flavors of dried apples, almonds, and dried plums with a fleeting touch of rosemary to highlight it all.

Production Details

• Agave sources: Wild harvested
• Roast: Conical earthen oven lined with stone.
• Crush: Hand chopped with an axe and crushed with wooden mallets.
• Fermentation: In ground oak wood vats.
• Distillation: Double distilled in filipino still with copper pot and serpentine condenser.

Background Notes

Everything Roldán touches seems to turn to gold, including this sotol.