Arroqueño - Santa Inés Sola

Batch: FV-02

Release date: Sautter Cigars Exclusive Batch

on a farm in Mexico Jon from the Sin Gusano project and Florian from the Arroqueño - Santa Inés Sola mezcal
on a farm in Mexico Jon from the Sin Gusano project and Florian from the Arroqueño - Santa Inés Sola mezcal

At a glance:

  • Maguey: Arroqueño (A. Americana var. oaxacensis
  • Producer: Florian Vasquez
  • Region: Santa Inés Sola, Sola de Vega, Oaxaca
  • Cooking: Earthen horno
  • Milling: By axe and wood chipper
  • Fermentation: Wooden tinas
  • Distillation: Unusual first pass in stainless stell, followed by second in clay pots
  • Composition: Heads, hearts and tails
  • Batch size: 100 litres
  • Date of production: October 2022
  • ABV: 52.5%

100% maguey Arroqueño (A.Americana var. oaxacensis) cultivated from seed and grown on the land of maestro Florian Vasquez.

Unusually for the region (which is primarily known for small clay pot distillation), Florian first distilled this batch in stainless steel, before reverting to the quintessential clay pots for the second distillation. This technique aims to increase yield without losing the essence of the ancestral clay flavour.

Florian swapping out the bagazo from the first distillation of mezcal

Florian swapping out the bagazo from the first distillation

A man re-building a still for mezcal production with masa ‘cement’

Re-building the still with masa ‘cement’

Clay pots for second distillation of mezcal

Clay pots for second distillation

Florian, creator of the Arroqueño - Santa Inés Sola mezcal

Gracias Florian

House Tasting Notes:

Tasting overview: Earthy, sweet, smoky

Tasting notes: Earthy, woody, and dusty on first nose. But also sweet, like an extremely boozy trifle. Toasted liquid caramel on first sip, before more chalky and mineral tones are allowed to enter the mid-palate. The finish is dusty, yet sweet, yet mineral. At 52% this one really packs a flavour punch… that first toasted caramel sip is dangerously moreish.

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