Don Mateo Mezcal Joven Cupreata Consignment The vines here are old

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

Pinot Noir supplies the body

The Zeltinger Sonnenuhr's legendary south-facing slopes yield Spätlese richness balanced by the Feinherb style—off-dry elegance rather than overt sweetness

Ramonet is one of the legendary names of white Burgundy

The first Basil Hayden Rye release with an age statement

Don Mateo Mezcal Joven Cupreata Consignment The vines here are oldAgave 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