Heladio Lopez
craft distillers
Heladio Lopez made what’s inside the bottle in your hand.
He’s young, gifted, innovative, learns from his work, and is using 70-liter clay potstills to distill some of the finest mezcals we have tasted: impressive character, definition, finesse. His
focus is tiny batches of local agaves.
Heladio's small roasting pit-oven(horno)
Where he hand-crushes the roasted agaves
Checking a fermentation. Great distillers display intense focus.
Removing agave solids (bagasso) after a run
Emplacing the condensation chamber
Sealing the still with bagasso for the next run
Cooling water for the condensing pan
Tending the fire with care. Ready heat is crucial
We just asked Heladio about what we are tasting. The answer is never simple