La Medida Mezcal Tepeztate 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 Tepeztate is made by maestro mezcalero Ismael García Sánchez in Miahuatlán, Oaxaca. Tepeztate (Agave marmorata) grows wild for 20 to 25 years at high elevation, often clinging to cliff faces, before it's mature enough to harvest, which makes it one of the slowest and most labor-intensive agaves in mezcal. Ismael cooks it in a conical earthen oven, crushes it with a stone tahona, ferments in open-air wooden tinas, and distills twice in copper pot stills with a refrescadera condenser. Strength varies slightly from batch to batch. The importer calls this batch especially electrifying, with green banana, delicate flowers, bright bell pepper, Sichuan peppercorn, and underripe melon rind. Tepeztate is known for that peppery, green intensity, and this is a clean, vivid example of it, bottled unaged to keep the agave front and center.

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