Mezcal Bicuishe 'Antonio'

• Mezcal produced in Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
• Maestro Mezcalero Antonio Cortés Aragon
• 100% Bicuishe (Agave karwinskii)
• Cooked in a conical earthen oven and crushed using a traditional stone tahona mill drawn by a bull (!)
• Fermented in open-air wooden tanks (tinas)
• Distilled twice using copper pot stills with hybrid refrescadera condenser
• This a distinct crowd pleaser; herbaceous and earthy yet fresh and green with subtle acidity and rounded angles, soft like the texture of wet clay
• 47% ABV (ABV may vary batch to batch)

Piney and fibrous, this is a beautiful example of one of the many subspecies of Agave karwinskii found around Oaxaca, though Bicuishe is a term less frequently used in commercial productions outside the district of Miahuatlán.

Tasting Notes

Piney and fibrous, this is a beautiful example of one of the many subspecies of Agave karwinskii found around Oaxaca, though Bicuishe is a term less frequently used in commercial productions outside the district of Miahuatlán. Distilled twice using an alembic copper pot still with refrescadera (condenser) by maestro Antonio Cortés Aragon in the renowned southern Oaxaca municipality of Miahuatlán, this a distinct crowd pleaser; herbaceous and earthy, yet fresh and green, with subtle acidity and rounded angles, soft like the texture of wet clay.