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.
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.
