This small batch of Madrecuixe (agave Karwinskii) is one of the first batches made by master palenquero Eleuterio Perez Ramos that Cinco Sentidos has exported to an international market.
Tio Tello, as he is more commonly known, harvested the ripe agaves in Miahuatlan de Porfirio Diaz, Oaxaca, and roasted them in a conical oven with mesquite firewood for over four days. After cooking, Tio Tello with friends and family chopped the agave into small pieces with a machete before mashing them with large wooden hammers. Once mashed, it was allowed to ferment with well water in cypress sabino tanks.
This mash was then distilled in a single copper alembic style still at Tio Tello’s small palenque in El Nanche, Oaxaca. It was adjusted with heads, hearts, and tails. Approximately 200 liters were produced. Distilled April 2014, bottled in January 2021.
