Sotol Imperial Cosecha Silver

Sotol Imperial Cosecha Silver is a sotol from Chihuahua in northern Mexico, made the traditional way from wild Dasylirion cedrosanum. Sotol is not a mezcal and not an agave spirit, since the desert spoon is a separate desert plant entirely, and these slow plants take roughly twelve to eighteen years to mature in the arid landscape before they are hand harvested, with each yielding sap for only two or three bottles.
The hearts are roasted in conical earth pits over mesquite wood and river stones, then crushed by hand with axes, fermented naturally in pinewood vats and twice distilled in copper. The result is complex and earthy, with fresh herbal mint and fruity tamarind on the nose. The palate is silky and gently sweet, threaded with stony minerality and roasted notes of coffee, cocoa and toast that reflect the desert ground it came from.