Details
- Location: Michoacán, México
- Agave: Angustifolia / A. angustifolia
- Maestro Mezcalero: Miguel Ángel Jaramillo
- Batch: 10/22
- ABV: 47%
- Tasting keywords: Herbal, grassy.
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Nose
Light, grassy, wet cardboard.
Taste
Delightful woody and herbal flavors that are great neat but also make for a very intriguing cocktail base.
Production Details
- Agave sources: Minimum six-year-old, 100% wild Angustifolia.
- Roast: Roasted in a stone and brick oven between 3 to 4 days with avocado and oak wood.
- Crush: Mechanical
- Fermentation: 4 to 6 days in pine wood vats with 160 meter deep well water.
- Distillation: Double distilled in copper alembics with Filipino style wooden condensers.
- Rest: In glass for one year.
Background Notes
Like many of the Opunguio bottles this is very reasonably priced at $56 retail. Using Angustifolia is a very interesting idea, and potential portent of future mezcals from Michoacan. Miguel Ángel Jaramillo bought Angustifolia from Oaxaca for this first batch and has planted this agave extensively with plans to make it continuously in the future.
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