Rayo Seco Travesia Cenizo Tasting Notes

Details

• Location: Nombre de Dios, Durango
• Agave: Cenizo / A. durangensis
• Maestro Vinatero: Gilberto Roldán
• Quantity: 480 bottles (Bottle 316 tasted.)
• Batch: 202110
• ABV: 50.7%
• Tasting keywords: Wet leather, wet clay, borage, lactic.
• Uncertified agave spirits

Nose

Incredibly mysterious, deep and dense aromas of wet leather and clay.

Taste

Summons up images of an arid plane. It has a lactic charge with flavors of dried plums, borage, and wild dandelion.

Production Details

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

Background Notes

This was made by the justifiably famous Gilberto Roldán who got that way by being a magician with the local cenizo and lamparillo and because he’s an enormous character.