Espadín - San jose rio minas
Batch: CAN-01
Producer: Crispin Aguirre Navarro & Son Sebastian
Agave: Espadín (A.Angustifolia)
Community: San Jose Rio Minas, Mixteca, Oaxaca
Distillation style: Stainless steel & clay
ABV: 48.1%
Release date: December 2021
Flavour overview: Sweet, earthy, smoky, rich. A big hitter from the Oaxacan Mixteca.
Sebastian checking the perlas of fresh mezcal running off the clay still
Deep in the Oaxacan mixteca, a good 5 hours drive west from Oaxaca City, sits the community of San Jose Rio Minas. Within that community Crispin and his son Sebastian grow both agave Espadín and agave Tobala in their nursery before transplanting them to the surrounding hills.
Crispin surveying his baby Tobala at sunrise
Once mature, the agave is cooked in a classic earthen mezcal horno, crushed by beast drawn tahona, and open air fermented in a hollowed out tree trunk or canoe.
Rosario showcasing a fermentation Canoe
Crispin & wife Rosario at the still
The fermented mash is then double distilled in a stainless steel bottom pot / clay top pot filipino style set up.
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