Erstwhile Tepeztate Mezcal (Ancestral Limited Edition) Size:750ml Barrel #: 5009

Barrel #: 5009

Unique to the semi-arid shores of San Diego

Another bottling by High West while their own spirit matures

The flavor is a layered experience

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Erstwhile Tepeztate Mezcal (Ancestral Limited Edition) Size:750ml Barrel #: 5009A legacy of the era when Mezcal production was illegal in Oaxaca, this Erstwhile Ancestral Limited Release rescues a Garcia family tradition that had been forgotten for more than forty years. Distilled in clay pots. Distillation tube made from quiote (flowering stalk of agave plants) instead of metal. In the 1960's and 1970's, Don Lencho Silverio Garca's father would use hollowed out quiote instead of copper tubes, to evade the military that would