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: | 80% Espadin, Agave Angustifolia Haw and 20% Tobala, Agave Potatorum |
| Mezcalero: | Javier Mateo |
| Location: | Santiago Matatlan |
| Elevation: | Roughly 1700 meters |
| Production Date: | 05/2016 |
| Batch Size: | 1845 Bottles |
| Oven: | Conical oven underground, fired by wood. |
| Milling: | Chilean mill pulled by a horse |
| Fermentation: | Natural fermentation in 1000L Wooden |
| Destillation: | Doube distilled in 350L Copper Pots |
| Mixability: | medium |
| Notes: | This is highly unusual in the sense that both types of agave are cooked, fermented and distilled seperately, and the two mezcals are blended afterwards. Great result. |