Desolas Mezcal

This new Mezcal hadn’t been on the shelf for more than an hour before a customer came in looking for it, and recommended it to me as opposed to the other way around! I took a bottle home that night, and she was absolutely right, it’s a gorgeous, ultra-crisp mezcal with just the slightest hint of smoke and an irresistible herbaceousness. Made from the Salmiana agave, aka the ‘Green Giant’ due to its enormous size, which takes 25 years to mature. Like most agaves, the species is monocarpic, i.e. it flowers once and then dies (how romantic) and that flower, known as an inflorescence, can reach a height of 62 feet, making it the tallest of any known species of plant! The piñas are cooked in above ground ovens known as “hornos” instead of an underground pit, resulting in a mezcal with a low smoke aroma. Made an incredible Mezcal Negroni.