Jabalí - san luis amatlán
Batch: CGG-02
Agave: Jabalí (A.Convallis)
Region: Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
Distillation style: Copper alembic with refrescador
ABV: 52.2%
Batch size: 40 litres
Release date: October 2021
Flavour overview: Life, distilled. Black pepper upfront and tarragon in the mid palate, intertwining to create a long, grassy and complex finish. It’s like being transported to a lush and damp forest and knowing you’re surrounded by a vast ecosystem. It tastes like life itself.
Outside of the village of San Luis Amatlán, in the Miahuatlán region of southern Oaxaca, Camilo Garcia Gutierrez shares a palenque with his brother-in-law Nicolas. We proudly represent a number of batches from this palenque in the Sin Gusano range.
This is our second 100% Jabalí (A.Convallis) bottling from Camilo. And in fact just the second batch of Jabalí he’s ever made - it’s not an agave traditionally worked with in the region, although it is plentiful.
Wild agave Jabalí growing on Camilo’s land
Locally harvested agave is roasted in a conical earthen oven. The cooked agave is chopped up by hand with a machete before being milled in a chipping machine. Fermentation takes place in open air slatted wooden tinas, and distillation is in a copper alembic still with refrescador.
The Jabalí (wild pig) agave, is famously hard to work with and to tame. With this in mind, Camilo passed his Jabalí through the still an extra time - it’s triple distilled, and consequently proofed to a relatively high abv.
Camilo rolling freshly harvested caponed piñas off the truck, and checking the perlas of a new distillation.
Thank you Camilo for another extremely special micro-batch offering of this incredible agave.
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