La Medida Sierra Negra Mezcal

About: 

• Ancestral mezcal produced in San José Rio Minas, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
• Maestros: Mezcaleros Crispín Aguirre Navarro & Rosario Antonia Cruz
• 100% Sierra Negra (Agave americana var. oaxacensis Gentry)
• Cooked in a conical earthen pit oven
• Ground using a traditional stone wheel mill (tahona)
• Fermented using ambient yeast in open-air wooden vats (tinas)
• Distilled twice using a traditional clay pot still
• Rested over one year in glass before bottling

Flavor Profile:

• The nose offers a vague barnyard vibe with notes of wet clay, damp sawdust, goose down, mace, buttered cornbread, caramel, and candied yam
• Stunning texture on the palate brings waves of fresh herbs, prickly pear, cypress and sage, cacao, white pepper… and a hint of mothballs, but in a really good, nostalgic way