Cinco Sentidos Madrecuixe Tio Tello (96 proof)

Tio Tello’s mezcales demonstrate his demanding standards for the use of ripe “quiotudo” agave, and he employs unique distillation cuts that expertly balance the acidity of “xixe” (tails) with bold roasted agave of the hearts. Nowadays, Tío Tello’s youngest son Eduardo “Lalo” Perez Cortés does the majority of the work, distilling batches from his father’s agave for his father and his own agave for his own batches, which tend to be proofed slightly higher.

Madrecuixe is oven roasted for four days in Tio Tello's conical oven, using mesquite as the heat source. After roasting the madrecuixe is mashed by hand with wooden mallets and fermented in cypress tanks. The mosto is distilled 2X in a copper alambique pot at the distillery in El Nanche, Oaxaca.