Pensador Mezcal Espadin

Pensador Espadin is a joven mezcal from Don Atenogenes Garcia and family in Santa Maria La Pila, in the high and remote Miahuatlan district of Oaxaca. It is built on local organic Espadin, Agave angustifolia, and made entirely by hand, with no chemicals, no foreign yeast and no electric equipment touching the process, the kind of single producer working that gives Miahuatlan its individual stamp.
The agave is pit roasted, which lends the spirit its peppery smoke, then crushed, naturally fermented and distilled by traditional means before bottling at a bracing 47.5%. The nose carries anise, orange peel and peach fruit over baked earth and that peppery roasting smoke, while the palate turns to earthy minerals, aromatic herbs, chamomile and honeysuckle before an oaky smoke runs through the finish. The higher proof keeps the agave and the mineral terroir front and centre.