BUY CINCO SENTIDOS MAESTRO Y APRENDIZ TOBALA CON CUCHARILLA ONLINE | Boutique Wines & Spirits

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.Reynaldo made his 100-liter batch of Tobalá con Cucharilla by harvesting the wild plants in Albarradas. He roasted both together in an underground oven for 21 days, using encino oak as firewood and leaves from plantains and acacia as insulators. After the roast, the cooked plants were then mashed by wooden mallets, and the mash was allowed to ferment in stone tanks using spring water and encino de agua bark for three days. After fermentation, Reynaldo and his wife Rosa double distilled the mash in a set of eight clay pot stills. Reynaldo adjusted the final spirit with heads, hearts, and tails