Don Mateo Mezcal Joven Cupreata Consignment REWARDED - The Lagavulin Offerman

REWARDED - The Lagavulin Offerman Series not only comes from a good family and is in great demand around the world

Pinot Noir supplies the body

An unpeated single malt aged in American oak

The vines here are old (more than a century in some blocks)

citrus-driven character comes through cleanly

Don Mateo Mezcal Joven Cupreata Consignment REWARDED - The Lagavulin OffermanAgave cupreata is the signature maguey of the Ro Balsas basin, and it is a far more aromatic plant than the espadn that dominates Oaxaca slower growing, smaller, and much harder to farm. Emilio Vieyra, sixth generation at Don Mateo de la Sierra and the first certified mezcalero in Michoacn, works it in the temperate highlands above Morelia: agave roasted in a conical earthen pit, milled, fermented naturally in wood lined underground tanks with spring