Tepanal Ancestral Espadín Capón Mezcal

Tepanal is the clay-pot mezcal of Rafael García Aragón, a mezcalero in Santa María Sola de Vega, the Oaxacan district that made clay-pot distillation famous. The brand launched in 2020 with his son Jair and partner Antonio Avendaño, and the name comes from Tepanaltepec, "hill of honeycombs," for the honey once harvested in these hills. The process is old-school throughout: agave roasted in an earthen pit, fermented five to seven days in cypress tanks with wild airborne yeast, and double distilled in small clay pots. Capón means the agave was castrated — its flowering stalk cut before it could bloom — then left in the ground to keep ripening, so the sugars that would have gone into the quiote stay concentrated in the piña. That extra maturity gives an espadín more depth and richness than the standard version, and in clay it shows as a thicker, more mineral spirit with roasted agave, orchard fruit, and baked sugar under a soft wisp of smoke. Bottled at 48.6% ABV.

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