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Palenqueros Valente García Madrecuishe Mezcal
Palenqueros is the mezcal project founded by Luca Grano of La Maison & Velier, and it works with six Oaxacan producers, naming each bottle after the mezcalero who made it. The name comes from the palenque, the earthen pit where agave is cooked. This one is from Don Valente García, a fourth-generation maestro mezcalero in Santa María La Pila, in the Miahuatlán region, at about 1,550 meters, working alongside his grandson Semei García Ramos. The agave is cultivated Madrecuishe, a karwinskii agave, roasted in an earthen pit oven, crushed by hand with wooden mallets, fermented with ambient yeast in cypress and pine vats, and distilled over direct fire in a 350-liter copper pot still. It is bottled unaged at still strength, 48.9% ABV, from a 2024 release of just 933 bottles. Reviewers note dry grass and mineral on the nose, with green, vegetal notes, brine, a candied sweetness and subtle spice on the palate, a laser-sharp mezcal shaped by high-altitude growing. A single-producer, small-lot mezcal, and once this batch is gone it is gone.
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