Alipus San Miguel Sola Mezcal

Alipus was started by Los Danzantes to provide a market for family artisan distilleries. There are still hundreds of small mezcal distilleries in Oaxaca, and a number of them make fabulous product. Hector Vasquez and later Karina Abad Rojas have worked closely with selected small producers, both to improve their distillation methods and to help them with the complex paperwork required to certify their mezcals for export.The intent was to provide small distilleries with a wider market so that they could stay in business, and it has worked: Alipus producers have been able to add stills and \u2013 this is wonderful \u2013 to bring their children back from the USA because there is now enough work for them \u2013 as distillers! \u2013 at home.Alipus is now Mexico\u2019s #1 artisan mezcal. Craft Distillers started importing the Alipus mezcals in 2012. Both Los Danzantes and Craft Distillers take lower than normal markups so that these distillers can be better paid and so that all of us can enjoy it for years to come.

Alcohol percentage: 48.5

Tasting Notes

From Potrero, a remote pueblo in Oaxaca\u2019s Sola de Vega region craft production in an artisanal family distillery agaves wood-roasted in hornos (conical below-ground ovens) milled by hand using mallets in a canoa fermentation with native yeasts in open wooden vats double-distillation in very small wood-fired clay potstills.