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LIMITED EDITION: This first edition of the Maestro y Aprendiz series highlights the distilling talents of maestro mezcaleros Alberto Martinez Lopez and his longtime apprentice Reynaldo Alejandro. In the winter of 2024, each experimented with harvesting and distilling wild Cucharilla (Dasylirion) from their village, which grows abundantly and in the past has been harvested for firewood. With it being the first time they have worked with this plant, they each opted to ferment and distill it along with local agave that they are accustomed to working with.Alberto made his 180-liter batch of Cucharilla con Espadin by harvesting 32 wild Cucharilla and 10 cultivated Espadín from his property in Santa Catarina Albarradas, Oaxaca. He roasted both together in an underground oven for four days using encino oak as firewood and leaves from plantains, willows, and acacia as insulators. After the roasts, the cooked plants were then mashed with wooden mallets, and the mash was allowed to ferment in stone tanks with spring water and encino de agua bark for four days. After fermentation, Alberto and his family members double distilled the mash in a set of six clay pot stills. Alberto adjusted the final spirit with heads, hearts, and tails.