Exiliado Tobasiche Joven Mezcal 750 ml

Exiliado Tobasiche Joven is a mezcal from Oaxaca made with tobasiche, a wild agave that grows on steep hillsides and takes considerably longer to mature than cultivated espadin. It's cooked in an earthen pit, crushed, fermented, and hand-distilled in small copper-still batches, then bottled young without any wood aging. Wild agaves like tobasiche tend to run leaner and more herbal than espadin, with a sharper, more mineral smoke instead of a sweet one. It's a mezcal aimed at drinkers who already know the category and want to taste a specific agave rather than a house blend. Best kept for sipping rather than mixing, so the wild agave character isn't buried.

How to drink Exiliado Tobasiche Joven Mezcal

Serve it neat in a small glass, sipping slowly the way it's poured at a palenque, with an orange slice and sal de gusano on the side if you have it. Skip the ice — it flattens the smoke this style is built on.

MezcalOaxaca, Mexico