LAMATA CASTILLA DURANGO 750ML SKURNIK 9TH FLOOR HAND PICK

Lamata Castilla Durango is produced by Maximino Cruz using maguey Castilla (Agave angustifolia). Maximino Cruz is part of a Tepehuano family near Mezquital, Durango. The Tepehuanes are an indigineous people who live in Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas. The Tepehuano language is divided into three major branches with Southern Tepehuano being spoken in the municipalities of Mezquital and Pueblo Nuevo. This area is in a very mountainous region between Durango City, Mazatlan Sinaloa and Tepic Nayarit and unfortunately is currently being disputed by the Cartel de Sinaloa and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, making it very difficult for the people who live in the area to go about their business in a normal way. The agaves in this spirit were cooked in an underground pit oven, milled by hand with an axe, fermented in pine tubs, and double distilled in a Copper/Wood still.