Del Maguey Las Milpas (75cl)

Del Maguey Las Milpas is a single village espadin mezcal from Las Milpas, above San Dionisio Ocotepec in Oaxaca. Anastacio Cruz Antonio and his sons craft it from ripe espadin roasted in an earthen horno carved into granite, milled with a horse-drawn molino and fermented with ambient microbes in open-air wooden tanks. The granite horno gives a distinctive mineral character to the roasted agave. The nose shows slate and minerals balanced by tropical fruit and citrus, with rose petal florals, lavender, tarragon and pea shoots, and the finish is long and pleasantly dry.