Macurichos Arroqueño Mezcal Artesanal Joven

Macurichos is the mezcal of the Martínez family in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, made by maestro mezcalero Rafael Martínez Sernas, and the brand has built its reputation on Oaxaca's giant, slow-growing agaves. This bottling is 100% Arroqueño, Agave americana var. oaxacensis, harvested from plants that took between eight and twenty years to mature. The process is fully traditional: the hearts are cooked in a conical earthen pit oven fired with pine and mesquite, crushed by a horse-drawn stone tahona, fermented in encino oak vats with the family's own well water, and distilled before resting in glass. Skurnik, the brand's U.S. importer, describes the nose as soft and alluring, with caramel and lemon yogurt, followed by a rich, textured palate of butterscotch, soft cheese and vanilla cream. A brighter, herbaceous mid-palate brings asparagus and lemon zest before a long finish where the vanilla cream lingers amid delicate smoke. It's a mezcal for drinkers who like Arroqueño's pairing of confectionery richness with green, vegetal depth, and it shows best poured neat at room temperature in a copita or small glass, with a few minutes in the glass to open up.

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