The Lost Explorer Tobalá Tasting Notes
Details Location: San Pablo Huixtepec, OaxacaAgave: Tobalá / A. potatorumMaestro Mezcalero: Don Fortino RamosABV: 42%Tasting keywords: Smoked jalapeño, cherry liquorBuy it today Nose A whiff of wet granite and caramelized sugar on creme brulee. Taste A very light mouth feel with rich flavors of smoked jalapeño
The Lost Explorer Salmiana Tasting Notes
Details Location: San Pablo Huixtepec, OaxacaAgave: Salmiana / A. salmianaMaestro Mezcalero: Don Fortino RamosABV: 42%Tasting keywords: Pickled japeño, dried orange peel. Buy it today Nose A nose that summons images of sagebrush deserts. Pickled jalapeños, sandalwood, Taste Light in body with a touch of that distilled
Camazotz Oaxacan Rum Tasting Notes
Details Location: Sierra Mixe, OaxacaMaestro: Leoncio GasparABV: 48%Tasting keywords: Agricole, caramel.Buy it today Nose The second you pour it Camaztoz fills the room with a huge bouquet of agricole sugar cane fruit. Spirits made from freshly crushed sugar cane are so distinctive and
Pal’alma Tobaxiche Tasting Notes
Details Location: Oaxaca Agave: Tobaxiche / A. karwinskiiMaestro: Apolonio y Simeón RamírezAbv: 56%Tasting keywords: caramel, coffee, sweet tobacco Nose Cozy aromas of toasted coffee beans and fried sweet plantain are enticing. The aromas promise concentrated flavors full of piloncillo and dried tropical fruits. Taste The flavors
Mezcal Carreño: From Mezcal to Rum to Wine and Back to Mezcal
When Lorena Carreño was growing up on her family’s San Dionisio Ocotlán hacienda she remembers some agaves on the property, but mostly she remembers sugar cane fields. While her grandfather and elder generations grew agaves and made mezcal, Carreño is
Quarantine Cooking Part 5: Oaxaca – Home Cooking From the Heart of Mexico
This post is part of a series where we are cooking recipes from some of the Mexican cookbooks released this and last year, in the hopes that we’ll make your quarantine cooking a little more fun. Check out: Part one on Danny
Legendario Domingo Oaxaca tasting notes
Details Location: San Luis del Rio, Oaxaca Agave: A. angustifolia - Espadin. Maestro Mezcalero: Velasco Family ABV: 48% Tasting Keywords: Citrus, sugar cane. NOM: F369D Buy it today Nose This is like mainlining espadin, it's all agave sugar and lemon peel.
A few of my favorite things – Oaxacan chef+mezcal+Oakland
I am showing my bias here... Chef Pilar Cabrera of La Olla in Oaxaca is in the Bay Area to promote her new book - a collection of recipes from Casa de Los Sabores, the cooking school she started in Oaxaca some 20 years ago.
Death by Ruta del Mezcal
It was a whirlwind of a Oaxaca trip - not so much in time but in all that was done in two very short and long weeks. The pretext for the trip was a wedding - my first Spanish teacher in
A "wild" tasting
I had a chance to check out the Maestros del Mezcal tasting in Oaxaca. It was completely focused on wild agaves (silvestres) and included a collection of live plants. There were some pretty amazing mezcals from small producers - from