Single-batch artisan mezcal based on wild/semi-wild agaves. The brand was conceived by Craft Distillers & developed in collaboration with Destileria Los Danzantes. Craft-method distillation is what we believe in. Great product deserves an audience. Most of the best mezcal distillers produce tiny batches. The only way to keep this wonderful process going is by making it more widely available.

 

MEZCALERO nos. 1-25  sold out

MEZCALERO SPECIAL nos. 1-5  sold out

 

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MEZCALERO NO. 25

Hand-distilled March 2013 by Don Cosme Hernández and his son Cirilo in San Baltazar Guélavila from wild tobalá (agave potatorum). Beautiful tobalá elegance married to San Baltazar’s signature soft touch. 960 bottles. (750ml/47.5% abv)

RSP $110

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MEZCALERO No. 26

Hand-distilled April 2018 by Don Valente Angel Garcia in Santa Maria la Pila, near Miahuatlan, from wild arroqueño (agave Americana). This man is a great distiller: the flavors are pure, the cuts precise. We like arroqueño, higher acidity helping to make the flavors clean and distinct. Nice intensity, nice minerality from Miahuatlan’s ferriferous clay shale.  960 bottles. (750 ml / 47% abv)

RSP $110.00

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MEZCALERO No. 27

Hand-distilled May 2019 by Rodolfo Juan Juarez in San Juan del Rio from wild tepeztate (agave marmorum), wild jabali (agave convallis), and cultivated espadín (agave angustifolia).The use of jabali is noteworthy: intensity married to earthy fruitiness; it makes wonderful mezcal but is notoriously difficult to distill. Espadín, broadly round in flavor, is the perfect backdrop for wild agaves. Special stuff. 240 bottles. (750 ml / 46% abv) SOLD OUT

RSP $110.00

 

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Mezcalero No. 28

Hand-distilled May 2013 by Don Valente Angel in Santa Maria la Pila in Miahuatlan from wild bicuishe (agave Karwinskii), semi-wild madrecuishe (agave Karwinskii), wild Mexicano (agave rhodacantha)and cultivated espadín (agave angustifolia).Aged five years in glass: soft, balanced, complex. Unreal. 750 ml/47% abv $115.00

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MEZCALERO No. 29

Hand-distilled April 2019 by Octavio Jiménez Méndez in Santiago Matatlan from wild tepextate (agave marmorata). Tepextate‘s rich intense fullness. 750 ml/46.5% abv $115.00

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MEZCALERO SPECIAL NO. 6

Hand-distilled December, 2022, by Rodolfo Juan Juarez in San Juan del Rio from Maguey Azul (agave tequilana), the agave used by statute for tequila. The richness and complexity of this mezcal in comparison with tequilas vividly demonstrate the value of including the agave solids in fermentation and distillation.(750ml/ 48% abv)

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MEZCALERO SPECIAL NO. 5

100% wild cenizo (agave durangensis) hand-distilled May 2019 by Don Rubén Solis Lozano in La Constancia, Durango. The upland agaves were wood-roasted, crushed by hand, fermented in a wood-covered underground pit using wild yeasts, double distilled in a 300-liter copper potstill, and bottled in August of 2019. The tiny cenizo is notoriously difficult to distill. Beautifully balanced 960 bottles. (750m/l 47% abv) SOLD OUT

RSP $135

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LIST OF RELEASES

Mezcalero 29, Santiago Matalan (2022, 504 bottles) agave tepextate

Mezcalero 28, Santa Maria La Pila (2017, 552 bottles) agaves Mexicano, Expadin, Bicuishe Madrecuishe

Mezcalero 27, San Juan del Rio (2019, 240 bottles) agaves Jabali, espadin, tepeztate

Mezcalero 26, Santa Maria la Pila (2018, 960 bottles) agave arroqueño

Mezcalero 25, San Baltazar Guelavia (2020, 960 bottles) agave tobala

Mezcalero 24, San Luis del Rio (2020, 768 bottles)  agaves tepextate, espadín

Mezcalero Special Bottling no. 5 (ensamble): La Constancia, Durango (2019-960 bottles), agaves; wild cenzio, espadin

Mezcalero 23, San Baltazar Guélavila (2019, 768 bottles)  agave sierrudo (local name/cousin of Mexicana)

Mezcalero 22, Santa Maria la Pila (2019, 816 bottles)  agave bicuishe

Mezcalero 21, San Luis del Rio (2018, 744 bottles) agaves espadin, cirial, and tobalá

Mezcalero 20: El Potrero (2018, 696 bottles) agave arroqueño

Mezcalero Special Bottling no. 4 (de Cabra):  Santa Maria la Pila (2018, 120 bottles) agaves bicuishe, espadin

Mezcalero 19:  San Luis del Rio (2017, 666 bottles), agaves Cirial and Espadín.

Mezcalero 18: Santa María la Pila (2017, 576 bottles), agaves Biuishe, Madrecuishe, Mexicano blended at roasting with Espadín.

Mezcalero Special Bottling no. 3: San Juan del Rio (2017, 736 bottles) agave tobalá

Mezcalero 17: San Baltazar Guélavila (2016, 1104 bottles), agaves de Lumbre and Espadín

Mezcalero 16: Santa María la Pila (2016, 1322 bottles) agave Madrecuishe

Mezcalero Special Bottling no. 2: Santa María la Pila (2016, 736 bottles) agave Dobadaan

Mezcalero 15: San Luis del Río, Tlacolula (2016, 1128 bottles) agave Sierra Negra

Mezcalero 14: Potrero (2015, 768 bottles) agave Arroqueño

Mezcalero 13: San Luis del Rio (2015, 642 bottles) agaves Tepeztate & Tobalá

Mezcalero Special Bottling no. 1: Bramaderos (Miahuatlan) (2015, 756 bottles) agave Madrecuishe

Mezcalero 12: San Miguel del Monte, Michoacan (2015, 718 bottles) agave Cupreata

Mezcalero 11: Bramaderos (Miahuatlan) (2014, 1068 bottles) agaves Madrecuishe, Mexicano, Espadín.

Mezcalero 10: San Juan del Rio  (2014, 858 bottles) agave Sierra Negra.

Mezcalero 9: Potrero/Sola de Vega (2013, 762 bottles) agave Arroqueño

Mezcalero 8: Santa Maria la Pila (2013, 1080 bottles) agaves Madrecuishe, Mexicano, Tobalá

Mezcalero 7: San Juan del Rio (2013, 606 bottles) agaves Sierra Negra, Tepeztate, Tobalá

Mezcalero 6: Santa Maria La Pila (2012, 816 bottles) agaves Bicuishe, Madrecuishe, Mexicano

Mezcalero 5: San Baltazar Guélavila (2012, 636 bottles) agaves Espadín, Tepeztate

Mezcalero 4: San Juan del Rio (2011, 852 bottles) agaves Sierra Negra, Tepeztate

Mezcalero 3: Santa Maria la Pila (2011, 780 bottles) agaves Espadín, Mexicano

Mezcalero 2: San Baltazar Guélavila (2010, 636 bottles) agaves Espadín, Tepeztate, Tobalá

Mezcalero 1: San Juan del Rio (2009, 192 bottles) agaves Tepeztate, Tobalá

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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