Espadilla & PapalomE

Batch: ML-02

Release date: June 2021

Batch size: 70 litres

ABV: 45.7%

Flavour notes: The soft and natural materials used in production really come through in the flavour here. It’s mellow and relatively delicate with only a light smoke. The faintest hint of lactic tones and some kind of interesting must is there if you seek it. But keep sipping and it become more and more like honey water, with a warming and pleasing after taste that’s almost reminiscent of a brandy. Very sessionable... although not for vegans.

This is our second blended batch of Espadilla with Papalome from Maestro Marcelo. That’s a cold blend of the liquids, post-distillation. The first batch was pure chance - in need of a large container, Marcel emptied the last few litres of an old batch of Papalome into a new batch of Espadilla. We tried it a few months later and it was great, so this batch is the result of asking him to do it again.

At Marcelo’s amazing hillside palenque, things are very much done the old school way. Fermentation is in rawhide, and his homemade filipino still is made up of a clay boiling chamber, with a hollowed out tree truck on top as a condensing chamber. It doesn’t get much rustic than this.

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