Chico Aguiar - El Tuito

In the coastal Cabo Corrientes region of northern Jalisco sits the small community of El Tuito, and within that ‘Charco del Sol’ - the tiny distillery of Maestro Tabernero Joaquin Solis.

Joaquin and his team roast their agave in a an underground conical oven before milling it by hand - first cutting with a machete and then mashing with wooden mallets on top of a tarpaulin.

The airborne yeast in this relatively warm and humid region allow the mash to ferment in open air vats. Finally the fermented mash is double passed through a rustic still comprising a clay pot boiling chamber and a tree truck condensing chamber with copper lid and a liquid capture / run-off made from a rolled agave leaf.