AlipusSanAndresMezcal(700mL)

<p>Mexican workmanship in a bottle!</p><p>In the desert mountains of <em>Oaxaca</em>, Mexico, <em>Los Danzantes</em> hand-harvest a blend of 12-year old agave plants by machete and roast it for three days in wood-fired pits to caramelize the natural sugars. They press grind the agave’ hearts under a mule-turned stone mill to extract the golden juices and pulp-ferment it in wooden barrels with natural, local, Oaxaca yeasts. They even transfer the yeast from batch to batch — just like the Americans are making their Whiskey with Sour Mash or fine sourdough bread — so that the best yeast from the best batches is the one that <em>is used again and again</em>.</p><p>It is an amazing, time-consuming, artistic dance of perfection. In fact, the name <em>“Los Danzantes”</em> translates as “The Dancers,” and they have earned that name in spades. They produce a variety of fine Alipus branded Mezcal separated by the <em>family and village </em>that produced it and subtle differences in the blend of agave plants that make up each batch.</p><p>The guys at <em>San Andres</em> actually blend in a bit of Cuishe Agave during fermentation to add more fruit and floral spice to the flavor. This pure agave distillate is a benchmark of <em>what Mezcal could and should be</em>.</p>