Sin Gusano Madrecuixe Chichipam Mezcal
£55.80
Orange, jasmine, and vanilla on the nose, with a relatively heavy dose of smoke. On the palate, those orange tones have become oilier, like the twist of rind that gets sparked with a lighter and served with a negroni.
Through the journey of a big pour it opens in the glass and the smoke dissipates somewhat to leave just the sweet roasted maguey and a hint of coffee on the un-fussy finish.
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CORRECTION NOTE – The illustration on this bottle label mistakenly shows a refrescadera still. This batch was distilled in a regular copper alembic
With this release Sin Gusano has returned to Fortunato in San Balthazar Chichicapam. Originally introduced via Alvin Starkman of Mezcal Educational Tours back in 2016, Fortunato and his family have become increasingly solid partners of The Sin Gusano Project.
For many years Fortunato used the community cooperative palenque, the fee for which was 2 litres of finished mezcal for each filled fermentation vat. His last batch from that co-op, which we bottled, was produced pre-pandemic.
In 2020 Fortunato managed to build his own palenque, and this April 2021 production was one of the first to run off the new stills.
The style of production at the new palenque is very much in keeping with the co-op, and of the community. The oven is an unlined earthen pit filled with local wood including mesquite.
The first roast happened mid-pandemic while the community was isolated from the outside world. Contained in that roast were the piñas of maguey Madrecuixe (Agave Karwinski) that went into this batch.
Release date: Apr 2023
Batch number: FH-03
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