The Mezcal is transported in tanks from there to the Los Danzantes bottling plant in the valley of Tlacolula, since transporting glass bottles (first empty, then filled) over the poor dirt roads that connect the towns to the main roads is impractical. The production sites of the different Mezcals are located between four to six hours by car from Oaxaca city.
A technical and cultural “bridge”, such as the one offered by Los Danzantes, is therefore essential to guarantee the sovereignty of the producers over their product and its marketing. Alipús San Andres Mezcal 47,5 (1 x 0.
No chemicals should be used in agave cultivation or production.įor the sake of understanding, it should be mentioned here that in most of the producer families Zapotec is spoken as a mother tongue and some of the older members do not know Spanish, accordingly they cannot read or write.
#Alpus san juan mezxal series#
Roasted in a stone-lined pit at ground level, milled using a horse-pulled millstone, fermented in 2,500-litre pine vats and double distilled in. Alipus contains a series of Espadin agave mezcal selected and bottled by the Los Danzantes distillery. Assistance with formal procedures such as tax and banking transactions Artisanal mezcal produced with 100 Espadn hand-harvested from the Oaxaca Valley plains.Assistance with certification by the Consejo Regulador del Mezcal.Setting uniform standards for production.Technical improvements in the distillery, e.g.The production team of Destilería Los Danzantes and the administration of the company support the producers with the following measures: Round and lithe on the palate the mezcal balances flavors of. The producers meet at least once a year at the invitation of Los Danzantes for workshops and exchange of experiences. Made in a minimal traditional method the spirit is distilled to a natural proof of 47.7 ABV. The smaller producers receive advance payments to prefinance production. There are projections and targets, depending on what happens in the market, rather than binding agreements. Prices are regularly renegotiated, and these are normally 20% higher than the usual market price in the region. Today one of the copper pots in Santa Ana carries a plate with “From Denmark With Love” on it after a fundraising made in Copenhagen to buy a new still for the family.There are no binding contracts between Los Danzantes and the distillers, which is why the latter enjoy maximum freedom to work with other brands, for example, or to set up their own - although no producer has yet abandoned the collaboration. Needless to say it was a town attraction when two white guys have to drop all their clothes to cross a river in a attempt to visit one of our favourite producers.
A few years later, we find ourselves on dirt-road in the back of a truck in Oaxaca, on the way to visit Eduardo Hernández, the producer at Santa Ana del Rio. Roasted in a stone-lined pit at ground level, milled using a. We ran in to Esteban Morales who at the time distributed Alipus locally, which resulted in the first bottles of Alipus in Denmark. Artisanal mezcal produced with 100 Espadn hand-harvested from the Oaxaca Valley plains. Our first encounter with Alipus was in a garage in Guadalajara a hot day in 2010. Very high quality throughout the range, and a real bang-for-the-buck mezcal. Limpidissimo e trasparente, grazie anche alla doppia distillazione, si distingue per un carattere terroso, quasi fungino, che rimanda a sentori anche di muschio e foglie secche, mentre invece lassaggio rivela molta più leggerezza e meno austerità del naso, con simpatiche note di pesca e melone bianco. They work together with a collective of Mezcaleros to produce fine artisanal mezcals that showcase their surroundings. Mezcal Alipus is a brand that showcases diversity in terroir rather than agave variety.
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