200 mL Bottle

This is 220-liter batch of Agave Espadin Capon is the result of maestro mezcalero Alberto Martinez and his son-in-law Reynaldo harvesting and distilling 23 'capon' Espadin magueys from their own lands in Santa Catarina Albarradas, Oaxaca. When the agaves sprouted their "quiotes" (stalks), Alberto and Reynaldo castrated the stalks and allowed them to sit in the field for almost one year in order to allow the sugars to re-concentrate in the hearts. After harvesting, Alberto and Reynaldo roasted the pinas in an underground conical oven with encino oak and acacia leaves for six days. Post-roast, they hand-mashed the cooked agave with wooden mallets, mixed with "tephuaje" tree bark for just four days. The resulting "tepache" and mash were then double-distilled in small clay pots at Alberto's palenque, "La Escondida." Proofed with heads, heats and tails by Alberto Martinez and his family. Distilled in March 2021, bottled in May 2021