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MEZCALGUIDE

What is Mezcal? Mezcal is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave. Agave Species Of the 200 species of agave, around 30 can be distilled to make mezcal. AgaveAngustifolia / Maguey Espadín is the most commonly sourced varietal formezcal. Each agave plant differs in the time it takes to ripen and the location where itwas grown. All of which contribute to Mezcal's different flavor profile and value. Agave/ Maguey ChartSCIENTIFIC NAME: AGAVE ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINYEARS TO MATURITY: 8SCIENTIFIC NAME: AGAVE AMERICANA MAGUEY: COYOTEYEARS TO MATURITY: 12SCIENTIFIC NAME: AGAVEKARWINSKIIMAGUEY: MADRECUISHEYEARS TO MATURITY: 13 SCIENTIFIC NAME: AGAVE MARMORATAMAGUEY: TEPEXTATEYEARS TO MATURITY: 25SCIENTIFIC NAME: AGAVEPOTATORUMMAGUEY: TOBALAYEARS TO MATURITY: 12 SCIENTIFIC NAME: AGAVE KARWINSKIIMAGUEY: TOBASICHEYEARS TO MATURITY: 12Examples of a few agave species

Difference between Mezcal & TequilaPlant: Mezcal can be made from any agave species while tequila can only bemade from Blue Weber agave. Production: The major production difference that influences the flavorprofile for both Tequila & Mezcal is the cooking of the agave. For Mezcal theagave plant is cooked in an earthen pit while tequila is typically baked inovens or autoclaves. Place: In 1994, mezcal received its own denomination of origin, allowing it tobe made in only nine Mexican states, although the vast majority of mezcals aremade in Oaxaca. Tequila can be made in five states (Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, orTamaulipas) and mezcal can be made in nine (Oaxaca, Guerrero, Guanajuato,Michoacán, Zacatecas, San Luís Potosí, Tamaulipas, Durango and Puebla, ).EARTHEN PITBRICK OVEN

Reading the Mezcal Label Law mandates that mezcal labels must include but is not limited to:*AGAVE/MAGUEY:AGAVE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR THE PLANT MAGUEY COLLOQUIAL TERM FOR THE PLANT*CLASS: AGE EXPRESSION (IE:JOVEN, REPOSADO, ANEJO OR EX. ANEJO) *DISTILLED WITH: (IE:PECHUGA) & AVOCADO (INFUSED MEZCAL)*CATEGORY: ARTESANAL:THE VAST MAJORITY OF CERTIFIED MEZCAL FALLS INTO THIS CATEGORY.PROHIBITS INDUSTRIALIZED MACHINERY. ANCESTRALTHE MAGUEY MUST BE PIT-COOKED AND MALLET-CRUSHED OR STONE-MILLED.DISTILLATION MUST BE IN CLAY POTS, AND STAINLESS STEEL IS PROHIBITED.MEZCALALLOWS FOR MODERN PRODUCTION METHODS IMPORTED FROM THE TEQUILAINDUSTRY.*ABV*STATE*LOT*D.O.M

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADIN LOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3540140 750ML/6AGAVE: CUPREATAMAGUEY: PAPALOTELOCATION: GUERREROCLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3540040750ML/6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADIN LOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL0308040750ML/6AMARÁS IS AN HONEST BRAND BORN FROM OUR SPECIAL BOND WITH THE SUN, THE LAND, AND PEOPLEWHO WORK IT. IT COLLABORATES WITH MAESTROS MEZCALEROS FROM OAXACA AND GUERRERO TOCREATE OUR CORE PORTFOLIO USING AGAVE ESPADÍN AND CUPREATA, HONORING CENTURIES OFHERITAGE AND PRESERVING 500 YEARS OF ARTISANAL CRAFTING.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA + KARWINSKII MAGUEY: ESPADIN + BARRILLOCATION: EJUTLA + OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN1243140750ML 6OUR SPIRIT IS A SMALL-BATCH, ARTISANAL, PREMIUM MEZCAL. STEEPED IN HERITAGE AND CRAFTSMANSHIP,MADE FROM A UNIQUE ENSAMBLE OF AGAVE, RESULTING IN A SMOOTH FLAVOR LIKE NO OTHER. A MOMENT TOTRULY SAVOR.

AGAVE: DURANGENSISMAGUEY: CENIZOLOCATION: DURANGOCLASS.: UNAGEDCATEGORY: ARTESANAL1722440750ML 3AGAVE: CUPREATAMAGUEY: PAPALOTELOCATION: GUERREROCLASS.: UNAGEDCATEGORY: ARTESANAL1721940750ML 3THIS MEZCAL IS MADE FROM CENIZOAGAVE, A RARE VARIETY THAT GROWS WILDIN THE STATE OF DURANGO IN NORTHERNMEXICOTHIS MEZCAL IS MADE FROM PAPALOTEAGAVE, A RARE VARIETY THAT GROWS WILDIN THE MOUNTAIN RANGES IN THE STATE OFGUERRERO

AGAVE:COYOTE MAGUEY: AMERICANALOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL0308440 750ML 6AGAVE: MADRECUISHEMAGUEY: KARWINSKIILOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL0308340 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY:ESPADINLOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL 0308240750ML 6CONVITE IS PROUD TO BE A 100% OAXACAN INDUSTRY, HEIRS OF KNOWLEDGETRANSMITTED OVER MORE THAN FIVE GENERATIONS IN THE DISTILLATION OF AGAVEAND IN THE BOTTLING OF LOCAL BEVERAGES.

AGAVE:ESPADIN LOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN4000740 750ML 6CRÁNEO ORGANIC MEZCAL BEGINS WITH HAND SELECTING 100% ORGANIC AGAVE GROWN AT 5,600 FT. HARVESTEDWHEN FULLY MATURED, CHARRED PIT OVEN ROASTED PIÑAS ARE THEN CRUSHED BY A MASSIVE STONE TAHONA TOEXTRACT THEIR SWEET JUICE. ONCE NATURAL FERMENTATION OCCURS, SMALL BATCHES OF CRÁNEO ORGANIC MEZCALARE DISTILLED TWICE IN COPPER POT STILLS CAPTURING BOLD, COMPLEX FLAVORS OF AGAVE, RICH FERMENTATIONNOTES AND SMOKE.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADIN LOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN2370040 750ML 6BORN FROM THE TRADITIONS OF TWO LEGENDARY MEZCALEROS, MEZCAL CREYENTE® JOVEN IS ABLEND OF TWO EXTRAORDINARY MEZCALS FROM THE OAXACA, MEXICO REGIONS OF TLACOLULA ANDYAUTEPEC, CREATING A PERFECT UNION AND A MEZCAL THAT YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO TASTE TOBELIEVE.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADIN LOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN3834031 : LITER 6 3834040: 750ML 6EL BUHO, SPANISH FOR “THE OWL”, IS REVERED IN MEXICANCULTURE AS THE SPIRITUAL LINK BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, CARRYING SOULSFROM THE LIVING WORLD TO THE AFTER LIFE.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY:ESPADINLOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: ANEJOCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3834140 : 750ML 6 3834160 : 375ML 12AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY:ESPADINLOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3834240 : 750ML 6 3834260 : 375ML 12AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY:ESPADINLOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: REPO.CATEGORY: ARTESANAL3834140 : 750ML 6 3834160 : 375ML 12THE FOURTH-GENERATION MEZCALEROS WHO CRAFT ILEGAL USE ONLY PERFECTLY RIPE ESPADÍNAGAVE, DOUBLE DISTILLED IN OAXACA, MEXICO. HANDCRAFTED IN SMALL-BATCHES, ILEGAL MEZCALHAS A UNIQUE AND COMPLEX TASTE FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY SIPPING SPIRITS LIKE TEQUILA,BOURBON, OR CRAFT GIN.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY:ESPADINLOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ANCESTRAL8400540 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY:ESPADINLOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL8400140 750ML 6AGAVE: KARWINSKII, POTATORUM, SPMAGUEY:CIRIAL, LUMBRE, TOBALA,TOBAZICHELOCATION:OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL8400240750ML 6AGAVE: MARMORATAMAGUEY: TEPEZTATELOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL8400340 750ML 6AGAVE:POTATORUMMAGUEY:TOBALALOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY:ARTESENAL8400440750ML 6FOUNDED IN 2009, KOCH EL MEZCAL (KOCH) IS A PIONEER OF THE SINGLE-AGAVE MEZCAL. KOCHIS COMMITTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY ONLY USING 100 PERCENT SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES,PROTECTING/MAINTAINING THE AGAVE POPULATION IN MEXICO, AND CULTIVATING THETRADITIONS OF OAXACA AND ITS PEOPLE.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL1020340 750ML 6LOBOS 1707 ARTESANAL MEZCAL IS MADE WITH 100% AGAVE ANGUSTIFOLIA (MAGUEY ESPADIN), ROASTED INAN OPEN, CONICAL OAXACAN FIRE PIT, THEN GROUND IN AN EGYPTIAN STONE MILL. ACCORDING TO THE LABEL,THIS MEZCAL IS FLAVORED USING PEDRO XIMÉNEZ (PX) WINE BARRELS FROM SPAIN.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: ARTESENALAGE: JOVEN4310440 750ML 6AGAVE: AMERICANAMAGUEY: COYOTELOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: ANCESTRALAGE: JOVEN4310940 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADIN LOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: ANCESTRALAGE: JOVEN4310640 750ML 6AGAVE: POTATORUMMAGUEY: TOBALALOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: ANCESTRALAGE: JOVEN4310740 750ML 6 LOCAL MAESTROS MEZCALEROS USE METHODS PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS TOPRODUCE AUTHENTIC, SUPER-PREMIUM MEZCAL. WE PARTNERED WITH THESE FAMILIES ANDCREATED OUR OWN DISTILLERY TO COLLABORATE AND PRODUCE TRADITIONAL MEZCAL.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA/ KARWINSKIIMAGUEY: ESPADIN/CUISHELOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL4311040 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA/POTATORUMMAGUEY: ESPADIN/ TOBALALOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL4311440 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA/RHODACANTHAMAGUEY: ESPADIN/MEXICANITOLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL4311140 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA/MARMORATAMAGUEY: ESPADIN/TEPEZTATELOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL4311240 750ML 6 LOCAL MAESTROS MEZCALEROS USE METHODS PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS TOPRODUCE AUTHENTIC, SUPER-PREMIUM MEZCAL. WE PARTNERED WITH THESE FAMILIES ANDCREATED OUR OWN DISTILLERY TO COLLABORATE AND PRODUCE TRADITIONAL MEZCAL.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL1080740 750ML 6MEZCAL METEORO ESPADIN IS CRAFTED WITH 100% ESPADIN AGAVE. THE AGAVE HEARTSARE MASHED WITH A TRADITIONAL STONE WHEEL, CALLED TAHOMA, AND FERMENTED WITHNATURAL AIRBORNE YEAST IN CYPRESS WOOD VATS. DOUBLE DISTILLED IN TRADITIONALCOPPER POT STILLS.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL6190040 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINDISTILLED W.: PECHUGA (CHICKEN)LOCATION: OAXACACATEGORY: ARTESANAL6190240 750ML 6AGAVE: POTATORUM MAGUEY: TOBALALOCATION: PUEBLACLASS.: JOVEN CATEGORY: ARTESANAL6190140 750ML 6AGAVE:CUPREATA,ANGUSTIFOLIA,POTATORUM MAGUEY: PAPALOTE, ESPADIN,TOBALALOCATION: PUEBLACLASS.:JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL6190340 750ML 6 SALDAÑA’S VISION WAS TO CREATE A MEZCAL WITH A MOSAIC OF BALANCE AND COMPLEXITYTHAT CELEBRATES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGAVE PLANT. HIS AMBITION WAS THATANYONE TASTING IT COULD DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW EVERY TIME IN THE DISTINCTIVE ANDLAYERED SPIRIT

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADÍN CAPÓNLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL2279540750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADÍN LOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN CATEGORY: ARTESANAL2279640750ML 6 OUR MAESTRO MEZCALEROS CAREFULLY SELECT THE BEST WILD AND SEMI-WILD AGAVES ANDEMPLOY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN TO THEM THROUGH THE GENERATIONS TOPAINSTAKINGLY COOK AND DISTILL ARTISANAL MEZCALS HAVING COMPLEX FLAVOR PROFILES THATSEPARATE OUR SUPERIOR MEZCALS FROM THE REST OF THE PACK.

AGAVE: KARWINSKIIMAGUEY: CUISHE/CIRIALLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3815440750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA MAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: ABOCADO CONCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3815340750ML 6PERRO DE SAN JUAN WAS BORN AS A RESULT OF THE DESIRE TO SHARE AND EXPERIENCE NEW EXPERIENCES WITH THEPEOPLE AROUND US, TO KNOW AND RESPECT DIFFERENT CULTURES AND BELIEFS, BUT, ABOVE ALL, FOR HAVING LEARNEDTO VALUE LIFE THROUGH EXPERIENCES AND NOT BY APPEARANCES. A 100% MEXICAN COMPANY THAT PROMOTES THECONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE AGAVE TO OFFER AN UNBEATABLE PRODUCT THAT LEADS US TO EXPERIENCEENDLESS EMOTIONS THROUGH ITS FLAVORS AND AROMAS.AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA MAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3815240750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIA MAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3815140750ML 6

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL1052040 750ML 6HAND-SELECTED AGAVE, ROASTED IN A CONICAL STONE OVEN, TAHONA MILLED,NATURALLY FERMENTED IN WOODEN VATS. TWICE DISTILLED IN COPPER POTS.INDIVIDUALLY BOTTLED AND NUMBERED.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL 5290240 750ML 6FOR MEZCAL SAN COSME WE USE 100% ESPADÍN AGAVE. TO SECURE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THISPLANT, WE LEAVE 5% OF OUR HARVEST TO BLOOM TO GUARANTEE HEALTH AND GENETIC DIVERSITY.SANTIAGO MATATLÁN VALLEY, IN OAXACA, REUNITES PERFECT CONDITIONS OF SUN, HUMIDITY, ANDSOIL FOR THE AGAVE HARVEST.

MEZCAL UNIÓN HAS PARTNERED WITH AGAVE FARMING COMMUNITIES IN PLANTING 750,000AGAVES TO DATE ALONG THE MOUNTAINS IN OAXACA. WE PLANT ESPADÍN, CIRIAL & TOBALÁ ASOUR GOAL IS TO EXCLUSIVELY USE THE AGAVES WE HAVE PLANTED. THE SMALL BATCHES OFMEZCAL PRODUCED ARE BLENDED AND BOTTLED BY MEZCAL UNIÓN'S TWO FEMALE MASTERBLENDERS IN OAXACA CITY. AGAVE: CIRIALMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL 1699640750ML 6AGAVE: TOBALÁMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL 1699740750ML 6

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACADISTILLED W.TOASTED CORNCLASS: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANALMEZCALERO: HIJOS DE AQUILINOGARCÍA 0155240 750ML 6AGAVE: KARWINSKIIMAGUEY: MADRECUISHELOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN CATEGORY: ARTESANALMEZCALERO: EMIGDIO JARQUIN0155140 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANALMEZCALERO: JOEL BARRIGA0155540 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANALMEZCALERO: EMIGDIO JARQUIN 0155340 750ML 6AGAVE: ENSAMBLE (SEE BELOW)MAGUEY: ENSAMBLELOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVEN CATEGORY: ANCESTRALMEZCALERO:TIO REY0155440 750ML 6CLAY POT DISTILLED*PLANT VARIES MEZCAL, LIKE WINE, VARIES WITH EACH BATCH. MUCH OF THE MEZCAL WILL COME FROM ESPADINAND ELOTE, BUT OTHERS, SUCH AS OUR TOBALA AND MADRE CUIXE, FOUND HARD-FOUGHT ON THISEPIC JOURNEY, WILL COME FROM OTHER REMOTE TOWNS, FROM MASTER MEZCALEROS WHOSEMEZCALS MUST BE SHARED WITH THE WORLD.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3894340 : 750ML 6 3894360 : 375ML 12 AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: REPOSADOCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3894240 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: ANEJOCATEGORY: ARTESANAL3894940 750ML 6ITS NATURAL SMOKY FLAVOR IS DERIVED BY COOKING THE AGAVE IN A CONICAL STONE OVENON MESQUITE AND OCOTE, WOODS NATIVE TO OAXACA. THE COOKED AGAVE IS TAHONA MASHEDAND NATURALLY FERMENTED IN AN OPEN PINE VAT. FOLLOWING FERMENTATION, IT IS DOUBLEDISTILLED IN A COPPER ALEMBIC, FILTERED AND PRECISELY BLENDED.

AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACACLASS.: JOVENCATEGORY: ARTESANAL0308140 750ML 6AGAVE: ANGUSTIFOLIAMAGUEY: ESPADINLOCATION: OAXACADISTILLED W.: PECHUGA MOLE(CHICKEN MOLE)CATEGORY: ARTESANAL3893040 750ML 6ITS NATURAL SMOKY FLAVOR IS DERIVED BY COOKING THE AGAVE IN A CONICAL STONE OVENON MESQUITE AND OCOTE, WOODS NATIVE TO OAXACA. THE COOKED AGAVE IS TAHONA MASHEDAND NATURALLY FERMENTED IN AN OPEN PINE VAT. FOLLOWING FERMENTATION, IT IS DOUBLEDISTILLED IN A COPPER ALEMBIC, FILTERED AND PRECISELY BLENDED.