Mezcal Amarás’ new Logia line focuses on expressions like this Cenizo that embrace local distilling traditions. For more on the Mezcal Amarás project, read our profile.
Details
- Location: Nombre de Dios, Durango
- Agave: Cenizo / A. durangensis
- Maestro Mezcalero: Gilberto Rodan
- ABV: 46%
- Tasting keywords: Pickled jalapeño, chocolate, tobacco.
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Nose
This comes at you with that real northern bouquet of lactic ferments, just like opening a jar of pickled jalapeños.
Taste
The flavors contrast highly with the aroma with much more subtle and restrained strains of balsa wood, chocolate, and tobacco.
Production Details
- Agave sources: 14-year-old wild agaves.
- Roast: Conical underground oven lined with volcanic rock and fired with mezquite and/or huisache wood.
- Crush: Hand milled with an ax.
- Fermentation: Fermented underground in rectangular pine wood fermentation vats in order to maintain a hospitable temperature in Durango’s highly variable climate.
- Distillation: Copper still with a wooden cap.
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