Espadín - San jose rio minas

Batch: CAN-01

Release date: December 2021

Sebastian checking the perlas of fresh mezcal running off the clay still
Sebastian checking the perlas of fresh mezcal running off the clay still

At a glance:

  • 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%

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.

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.

The fermented mash is then double distilled in a stainless steel bottom pot / clay top pot filipino style set up.

Sebastian checking the perlas of fresh mezcal running off the clay still

Sebastian checking the perlas of fresh mezcal running off the clay still

young agave growing to become future mezcal

Crispin surveying his baby Tobala at sunrise

Rosario showcasing a fermentation Canoe

Rosario showcasing a fermentation Canoe

Crispin & wife Rosario at the still for mezcal

Crispin & wife Rosario at the still

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Gracias Crispin, Rosario and Sebastian

House Tasting Notes:

Sweet, earthy, smoky, rich. A big hitter from the Oaxacan Mixteca.

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