Don Amado Mezcal Rustico CS20230516 and the 2009 vintage in

and the 2009 vintage in this large-format bottle is a celebration wine: a great Right Bank vintage

this is where the terroir argument gets made without the brandy

but with shorter aging and a more immediate

The fruit comes off organically certified vines on Saumur's tuffeau limestone

and the focus has not changed: low-intervention farming

Don Amado Mezcal Rustico CS20230516 and the 2009 vintage inSanta Catarina Minas is the Oaxacan village known for distilling mezcal in clay pots instead of copper, and this is the bottling that put that style on most American back bars. The Arellanes family has been distilling here for generations: mature highland espadn is roasted about four days in wood fired earthen pits over guamchil and mesquite, fermented with wild yeast, then twice distilled in small ceramic stills fitted with bamboo tubes. Clay yields