Don Amado Mezcal Rustico PURYEARSALE with a honeyed weight on

with a honeyed weight on the mid-palate that hints at the oak

Lirac shares the same sun-baked

four miles from the Pacific

and will hold comfortably for several years

Don Amado Mezcal Rustico PURYEARSALE with a honeyed weight onSanta 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