Mezcalero Special Bottling #5

Mezcalero Special Bottling #5 was made with wild cenizo (agave durangensis) harvested in La Constancia Nombre de Dios, Durango, and distilled by Don Rubén Solis Lozano. Cenizo is tiny and sparsely scattered in rocky soil at high altitude. The agaves were wood-roasted in a stone horno, crushed by hand, fermented in a wood-covered underground pit using wild yeasts, double distilled using artisan methods in a 250-liter copper potstill with a wooden cap and bottled in August of 2019. The cenizo is notoriously difficult to distill: Solis has captured its rich fruit and clean mineral acidity. 48% abv.