Los Perdidos Mezcal Reposado Arroqueno Old Rioja 2019 Isabella a Proibida

2019 Isabella a Proibida

hints of caramel and dried fruit with a ripened fruit finish

Bernard is the patriarch

or anything with bones

uses no bâtonnage

Los Perdidos Mezcal Reposado Arroqueno Old Rioja 2019 Isabella a ProibidaArroqueo is one of the great slow agaves the plants behind this bottle were 18 to 23 years old and the Arellanes brothers distill it the old way, in Santa Catarina Minas, the Oaxacan village where mezcaleros still work with clay pot stills instead of copper. German, Bezaleel and Armando are the eleventh generation of their family to make mezcal here: maguey roasted in a wood fired earthen pit, then distilled in small clay ollas. This one rests about