La Higuera
We are the first brand to explore different varieties of Dasylirion wheeleri: it is from el sauz the micro clime is very cold all year, a lot of hills with grass but not other vegetation and hi elevation. Dasylirion Leiophyllum: this is from coyoame area this place is very dry and and completely a desert with extreme changes of temperature. Dasylirion Cedrosanum: this type is from a region called Sierra del diablo with a lot of heat and humidity. A lot of vegetation is green all year. The sotol plant are ready to use at 20-year-old and is wild, interesting facts of sotol plant (any dasylirion) If you cut the plant leaving some part of the piña with the roots the plant can grow again Sotol plan make several quotes in their life that makes a lot more chances to reproduce.
¿How is the sotol made?
- Well, is exactly as other artisanal mezcal.
- Harvest the hearth of the plant.
- Roasted the hearth in an underground oven using wood and rocks.
- Smash the cooked piñas and ferment in wooden baths.
- Double distilled in copper still Gerardo Ruelas Master distiller (maestro sotolero / vinatero) 3rd generation of producers of sotol he and his family own the land where he extracts the plants of dasylirion for making sotol.
- 3rd genertion of producers of sotol he and his family own the land where hi extract the plants of dasylirion for making sotol.
