Don Mateo Mezcal Joven Cupreata Consignment and genuinely age-worthy

and genuinely age-worthy

The vines here are old (more than a century in some blocks)

Mickael Bourg came to wine with no family estate behind him

striking a gorgeous balance between natural richness and crisp

An unpeated single malt aged in American oak

Don Mateo Mezcal Joven Cupreata Consignment and genuinely age-worthyAgave cupreata is the signature maguey of the Ro Balsas basin, and it is a far more aromatic plant than the espadn that dominates Oaxaca slower growing, smaller, and much harder to farm. Emilio Vieyra, sixth generation at Don Mateo de la Sierra and the first certified mezcalero in Michoacn, works it in the temperate highlands above Morelia: agave roasted in a conical earthen pit, milled, fermented naturally in wood lined underground tanks with spring