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Cruz De Fuego Espadin Joven Mezcal
Cruz de Fuego is a mother-and-son mezcal from Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, made by Maestra Mezcalera Margarita Blas and her son Carlos Mendez Blas at the original family palenque. This Espadín is the house's foundation bottling, distilled from 100% Agave angustifolia harvested at seven to ten years old. The process is fully traditional: stone-lined earthen ovens are fired with wood for about twelve hours before the piñas roast underground for five days, and the cooked agave is then crushed under a horse-drawn stone tahona. Fermentation runs in open-air wooden vats on wild yeasts, so each batch shifts with the season and the surrounding flora, and the mezcal is distilled twice in small 350-liter copper pot stills before being bottled unaged at 45% ABV. The producer's notes call out distinct smoke, white flowers, stone fruit, black pepper and fresh root vegetables, and VinePair scored it 93 points in 2023, finding pineapple, mango and barbecue on the nose with green bell pepper and jalapeño on the palate. It's an approachable, versatile introduction to traditional Matatlán mezcal, as good neat in a copita as it is at the base of a mezcal cocktail.
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