$149.00
Mezcal Cuish 'Penca Larga' Hermógenes Vásquez
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- Destilado de Agave produced in Logoche, San Luis Amatlán, Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
- Maestro Mezcalero: Hermógenes Vásquez
- 100% Penca Larga (Fucraea sp.)
- Cooked in a conical underground oven
- Crushed with a small mechanical grinder
- Fermented in open air sabino (cypress) vats (tinas)
- Distilled twice using traditional copper pot stills with condenser (refrescadera)
- 45% ABV (ABV may vary batch to batch)Known locally as Penca Larga (essentially meaning “long leaf”), this plant has recently been discovered to, in fact, be a subspecies of a different genus, Fucraea, from the Asparagaceae family (similar to agave and sotol). Thus, while they may be cousins, this is not an agave at all! Mind. Blown.