Mal Bien Alto Madrecuishe 750m

The pride of a 200-person village. Madrecuishe — a tall, columnar cousin of Espadín from the Agave karwinskii family — is the signature plant of the Miahuatlán district, and nobody expresses it like Felipe and Ageo Cortes of tiny Mengoli de Morelos. Felipe has been a mezcalero for over 55 years; his son Ageo, the fourth generation, insists the whole family belongs on the credit line — mother Cesilia, wife Asela, sisters Amelia and Griselda. Their madrecuishe grows in the chalky fields beside the family home, then gets the long treatment: an 8–10 day pit roast over encino, mesquite, and yegareche wood, a 5–7 day rest before the ox-drawn tahona, open-air fermentation, and double distillation through copper. The result is karwinskii magic — fruit-candy sweetness and chamomile florals over wildflower honey, grapefruit peel, cocoa, and deep chalky minerality. One of the benchmark madrecuishes in the US market, batch by tiny batch.

Mezcal Details:

Agave Type: 100% Madrecuishe (Agave karwinskii), cultivated in chalky soils beside the family palenque

Classification: Mezcal Artesanal — Joven (unaged), small batches, lot-coded on label

ABV: Approx. 47% — lot-specific, printed on label

Production: 8–10 day pit roast (encino, mesquite, yegareche & palo de águila), 5–7 day rest, ox-drawn tahona, open-air tinas, copper double distillation

Origin: Mengoli de Morelos, Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico — Felipe & Ageo Cortes, 3rd & 4th generation

Bottle Size: 750ml