Código 1530 Ancestral Mezcal

Ancestral is the top of Código 1530's mezcal line and the most traditional thing the brand makes — a 100% papalomé mezcal produced with no modern technology at all. Papalomé is a regional name for a wild Agave potatorum cousin of tobalá, small, slow-growing, and scarce, harvested from the hillsides around San Juan del Río, Oaxaca, where Código partnered with a village of families who've made mezcal for generations. "Ancestral" is a legal category in Mexico with strict rules: the agave is cooked in an earthen pit, crushed by hand with wooden mallets, fermented in wood, stone, or clay, and distilled in clay pots over direct fire — the method that predates copper. Bottled at around 45% ABV in a numbered bottle; check your label. Mezcal made this way is softer, earthier, and more textured than copper-distilled spirit, and papalomé brings the potatorum family's florals and fruit: expect a nose of wet clay, cooked agave, ripe tropical fruit, and a gentle, dusty smoke, opening into a rich, viscous palate of honey, green herb, minerality, and the unmistakable rustic softness of clay-pot distillation, finishing very long and elegant. Honest note: this is a collector's mezcal at a collector's price — a sipper for drinkers who've worked through espadín and want the ancestral method from a rare agave. Neat, in a copita, slowly. The Jerusalem Cross on a clay-pot mezcal.

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