5 Sentidos Mezcal Arroqueno Tio Pedro

5 Sentidos Mezcal Arroqueno Tio Pedro Mezcalero “Tio” Pedro Hernandez makes his mezcal in the ancestral style – it is hand-mashed and distilled in small clay pots in Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca. For the first batch of 5 Sentidos Arroqueño released in the United States, the 135-liter batch was distilled from mature agave Arroqueño that was harvested at approximately 5,100 feet above sea level in Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca. Maestro mezcalero “Tio” Pedro Hernandez cooked approximately 70 piñas in an underground conical oven for 3 days. Pedro and his nephew Lalo then hand-mashed the cooked agave hearts with wooden mallets and allowed the agave mash to ferment with well-water for 16 days in large pine vats. The resulting mash was double distilled in small clay pots. 5 Sentidos is named after the five senses that their mezcaleros use to produce their agave spirits. The producers of this mezcal do not use any model machinery or tools, being guided only by their senses throughout the produc