La Medida Mezcal Bicuishe Joven

La Medida, meaning "the measure," was created by Julián Vidal Gómez Rodríguez, who has spent decades building Oaxacan mezcal from the ground up, together with maestro mezcalero Celso Luis Santiago. The brand pays its mezcaleros a salary while their agave grows and hands them an additional thirty percent of each batch's net sale price in cash. This Bicuishe comes from maestro mezcalero Antonio Cortés Aragón in Miahuatlán, in Oaxaca's southern sierra. Bicuishe is one of the tall, columnar forms of Agave karwinskii, a dense, fibrous plant that yields little juice and makes a distinctly resinous mezcal. Antonio cooks the piñas in a conical earthen oven, crushes them with a stone tahona pulled by a bull, ferments in open-air wooden tinas, and distills twice in copper pot stills fitted with a refrescadera, the hybrid condenser common in Miahuatlán. Strength varies slightly from batch to batch. The importer describes it as piney and fibrous, with an herbaceous, earthy profile balanced by fresh green notes, subtle acidity, and a texture soft like wet clay. A single-variety joven, bottled unaged, that shows off how different karwinskii can be from espadín.

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