Cruz De Fuego Espadin - Tobala Mezcal Joven, Oaxaca, Mexico

Cruz De Fuego is a message in a bottle, and the message is, "Welcome." Welcome to Mexico, the most generous, most hospitable place on earth — a place where everything is shared. We express this by sharing with you the liquid art that is mezcal. The mother-and-son team of Margarita Blas and Carlos Mendez Blas... make the spirits you will find in our bottles, and they make these spirits in a traditional way, using their five senses. It is one of the things that makes many mezcals and mezcal producers — maestros — so unique in the world of spirits. All alcohol begins life as sugar. The sugar source used to make every other alcohol you drink takes a maximum of six months to reach maturity. The grapes used to make the finest wines, the grains used to make the finest Scotch, the cane used to make the finest rums … none of these takes more than six months to reach maturity. But the sugars used to make mezcal come from the agave plant, and the fastest-growing agave varietal — the Blue Weber