Barro de Cobre Mezcal Ensamble

Mezcal Barro de Cobra mezcal originates in Rio Ejutla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Mezcal Barro de cobre espadín is the first mezcal that proposes the assembly of distillation processes, distilled in clay pots and distilled in copper pots. It is a spirit made with maguey espadín by the master mezcaleros Adrían and Lucio Bautista in Río Ejutla , Oaxaca. Once harvested, the piñas are cooked in the traditional manner in outdoor stone concave pits giving them their earthy and smokyqualities. It is then ground by a tahona stone using oxen to turn the wheel to create the bagaso which is later fermented in large wooden tanks using only native yeasts and later distilled in clay and in copper. The production of one bottle of mezcal takes 504 hours. Each bottle is filled and labeled manually. Espadín-Tobalá blend; 70% of the Espadín is distilled in copper stills, and 30% of the Tobalá is distilled in clay.