Codigo 1530 Ancestral Mezcal (75cl, 43.1%)

Codigo 1530 Ancestral Mezcal is an unaged ancestral mezcal from San Juan del Río, Oaxaca, made from 100% wild papalome (Agave potatorum). It is cooked in an earthen oven, hand-mashed with wooden sticks, naturally fermented in leather vats and distilled in clay pots, with no machinery or additives. The ancestral category means hand-crushed agave, natural fermentation and clay-pot distillation throughout. The nose is sweet and earthy, with honey and tobacco, and the palate brings salinity from the clay, bright minerality, vanilla, cantaloupe and a hazelnut finish, with a lingering sweet-earthy finish touched by gentle smoke.