MAGUEY: Tobala silvestre.

PLACE OF ORIGIN: San Pablo Huixtepec, Oaxaca.

FERMENTATION: Water from natural wells and wooden barrels.

ALCOHOL CONTENT: 40% alc. vol.

MILL: Crushed in oak mills.

OVEN: Conical underground ovens atop rio azul stones.

TASTESweet flavored with wood tones, tobacco, and wild herbs, recommend to take in from a wineglass.

DISTILLATION: Double distillation. Copper stills.

For ages, the serpent has been equally feared and revered.

A lifetime of gliding through land brings it in close intimacy with the world, as an earthen-bound bolt of lightning.

Slender, elusive, lethal. The serpent is quite unique in nature, so extraordinary, its beauty easily kills.

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