Derrumbes Mezcal, Tzitzio, Chino-Alto, Michoacán (70cl)
Derrumbes Mezcal, Tzitzio, Chino-Alto, Michoacán (70cl)
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Our story with Derrumbes starts in a taxi on our way to Santa Catarina Minas to meet Graciela, but this is not her story. Javier, the lovely man that drives the taxi, is actually not a taxi driver at all, but a maestro mezcalero using his dad’s old cab for tax reasons. It was really nice of Javier to offer to drive us to a different distillery than his own, just because he is a really good man. Javier produces a mezcal called Los Javis, that is his thing. On the side he produces a few special batches for Esteban, the man behind the brand Derrumbes. Esteban is expanding the brand slowly but surely and will release Mezcals from producers of his liking and from different states in Mexico. Everything about these Mezcals is anything but usual.
| Maguey: | 50% Wild Chino (Agave Cupreata), 50% Wild Alto (Agave Inaequidens) |
| Mezcalero: | Guadalupe Perez |
| Location: | Tzitzio, Michoacan |
| Elevation: | Roughly 1550 meters |
| Production Date: | 10/2019 |
| Batch Size: | 550 bottles |
| Oven: | Conical oven underground, fired by wood. |
| Milling: | Milled by hand with mallets |
| Fermentation: | underground pits lines with pine wood |
| Destillation: | Philipino stills, Copper bottom and condenser with a treetrunk as the body of the still |
| Mixability: | medium |
| Notes: | Rested for in glass demijohns before bottling. Not that it matters much, but these stills have one of the best views in the country. |
