Fidencio Tobalá Mezcal

Fidencio is the mezcal of the Jiménez family of Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, the town that calls itself the world capital of mezcal. The brand is named for Fidencio Jiménez, who began making mezcal there more than a century ago, and it is made today by his descendants, the fourth generation of family mezcaleros. Enrique Jiménez, an industrial chemical engineer, founded the family's Fábrica de Mezcal del Amigo in 2006 and built the modern Fidencio brand, which is a 50/50 partnership between the family and Fidencio Spirits Import Company. The family farms much of its own agave biodynamically, but this bottling is made from wild Tobalá, Agave potatorum, a small mountain agave that grows from seed and takes many years to mature, harvested from the hills around the village. The piñas are roasted in a traditional earthen pit oven, then fermented and distilled twice. Fidencio's own description of the Tobalá is brief: a variety of fruit and acidic flavors that present differently with every sip, and because each wild plant yields so little, Tobalá runs in small batches that can vary slightly from one to the next. Serve it neat in a copita or small glass at room temperature.

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