Palenqueros Onofre Ortiz Mexicano Mezcal (750 ml)

Description

Palenqueros Mexicano was created by fifth generation palenquero Onofre Ortiz in the village of Bramaderos, Miahuatlán, Oaxaca. The cultivated Mexicano agave was cooked in an 11-ton earthen oven pit before it was crushed by hand using a mesquite mallet in a stone canoe. A 7 day fermentation was carried out in pine wood vats using only the ambient yeast of the distillery before it was distilled on a 350 liter copper pot still. Bottled at still strength of 47.9% abv with no additives.