Granja Nómada Mezcal Tepeztate (75cl, 42%)

A mezcal made from 100% wild Tepeztate agave (Agave marmorata), matured for twenty years and hand-selected from nearby farms. Production takes place at Maestro Mezcalero Hugo Quinto's palenque in San Dionisio Ocotepec, in the Central Valley of Tlacolula, Oaxaca. The harvested piñas are cooked for six days in an earthen pit oven fired by locally chopped oak, crushed using a traditional tahona, fermented in open-air wooden vats for up to fifteen days, then double distilled in copper stills. Only the hearts are carried into the second run. The finished mezcal is bottled at 42% ABV. The nose brings subtle smoky notes with hints of citrus and floral undertones, the palate fresh agave, ripe citrus and floral notes, and the finish light smoke with bright agave notes.