Espíritu Lauro Reposado Mezcal

Espíritu Lauro Reposado is the rested version of the brand's joven, made at the palenque in San Agustín Amatengo, Oaxaca, that Don Lauro founded in the 1920s and Espíritu Corsa took over in 2010. The mezcalero is Carino Ramirez, and the mezcal is certified under NOM O138X. It is an ensamble of 70% Espadín, harvested at six to nine years, and 30% karwinskii, harvested at fifteen to seventeen years. The piñas are cooked in an underground stone oven, crushed by a horse-drawn tahona, wild fermented in wooden vats, and distilled in copper, then the mezcal is aged for two months in American white oak barrels. That short rest gives it a golden color and a sweeter taste than the joven while leaving the agave and smoke at the front, and it is bottled at 40% ABV. The palenque heats its stills with gas rather than wood and uses fallen trees for the roasting fire to limit deforestation. The Reposado sits between the unaged joven and the fourteen-month añejo in the Espíritu Lauro range, and it works well neat, over a large cube, or in a mezcal Old Fashioned where a touch of oak rounds out the smoke.

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