Cardenxe Sotol de Desierto

Cardenxe is a terroir-driven sotol brand founded by Italian-Mexican music producer Luigi Ambrosi, named for canto cardenche, a near-extinct folk singing tradition of northern Mexico, with bottle art inspired by the 1920s Estridentismo avant-garde movement. Each label comes from a different landscape within the sotol denomination of origin. Sotol de Desierto is distilled by sotolero Gerardo Ruelas Hernández near Ciudad Aldama in the Chihuahuan Desert from a wild-harvested ensamble of three Dasylirion species, cedrosanum, texanum and berlandieri, plants that grow twelve to fifteen years before harvest. The piñas are cooked in stone-lined earth ovens, crushed by axe, fermented in pine wood tubs and double distilled in copper stills, then bottled at 45% ABV (90 proof). The producer describes a highly aromatic, floral nose with cooked-agave sweetness, a mid-palate that dries into minerality, earth, wood and dark chocolate with green vegetal notes, and a lingering sweet cacao finish. It won Silver at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and The Daily Pour scored it 88, calling it quintessentially sotol with ashy barbecue, firewood and limestone minerality.

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