Mezcal
PALOMO CON MOLE MEZCAL 700ML NOM O724X
100% MAGUEY/ESPADIN AGAVE
Produced in Santiago Matatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, this Palomo mezcal is made from ripe agaves, baked underground for five days, milled by horse-drawn tahona, fermented with natural yeast in wooden tinas and double-distilled. For the third distillation, a four-week maceration with 30 mole ingredients takes place. Citrus in the nose with hints of chili spice, nuts, cacao. The palate reiterates the nose with spice, chocolate, nuts, vegetal mint, light smoke
Distilled by Victor, this is the first batch of tobalá made from plants cultivated beside the family’s ranch. Despite some popular myths, tobalá take to cultivation, and the plants reached maturity after just six years, as opposed to 12 years when harvested in the wild from the nearby mountains. Both nose and palate are clean and uplifting, with hints of fine smoke, minerality, leather, baked pear and mown grass. Very sippable.
Handcrafted in small batches by fourth-generation mezcaleros, Ilegal’s Joven, Reposado, and Anejo mezcals are all made with 100% Espadín agave, double distilled in the Santiago Matatlan Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Nose: caramelized pear, orange zest, light smoke, toasted agave.
Palate: Butterscotch, agave, brown spices, cinnamon, brown sugar.