Convite Tepextate Mezcal

Tepextate is the black truffle of mezcal — Convite's own phrase — an Agave marmorata that grows wild on cliff faces and rocky slopes, sends up broad, marbled leaves, and takes twenty years to mature. Convite, Oaxaca's top-selling mezcal, bottles it as a single-agave expression from the Zapotec mountains of San Baltazar Guelavila, where brothers Cosme "Tucho" and Daniel Hernández, the sixth generation of master distillers in their family, make everything the traditional way: wild 20-year tepextate, cooked in an underground pit oven, milled by a horse-drawn tahona, naturally fermented with spring water, and double-distilled in a copper alembic, bottled at around 46% ABV; check your label. Convite describes a spicy character combining earthy, herbal, and sweet notes, and notes that the careful process and the rarity of the agave make this a particularly unique mezcal. Expect the tepextate signature: a green, savory, almost vegetal funk on the nose over tropical fruit and florals, opening into a bright, mineral, faintly bitter palate with real structure, warm spice, and a cooked-agave sweetness underneath, finishing long, dry, and complex. Honest note: this is a connoisseur's mezcal and an acquired taste — the bottle for drinkers who've worked through the gentler agaves and want the wild one. In a copita, neat, slowly. Twenty years on a cliff, from Oaxaca's top-selling house.

Buy Convite Tepextate Mezcal online with fast shipping right to your door.