Sotol La Higuera Dasylirion Leiophyllum Cabernet Franc 85% Auxerrois

85% Auxerrois

This Four Tuesdays offering comes from organically farmed grapes in the village of Theziers in France's Southern Rhône valley

Jean-Pierre Amoreau and his son Pascal make pure and elegant biodynamic wines on twenty-five hectares of fifty year-old vines

From Long Island Spirits

more specifically in the Finger Lakes Region

Sotol La Higuera Dasylirion Leiophyllum Cabernet Franc 85% AuxerroisNot technically an agave spirit (but grouped with them for convenience), Sotol is produced from the flowering plants of the Genus Dasylirion, in the asparagus family. This Higuera Sotol is distilled from Dasylirion Leiophyllum in the state of Chihuahua. The core (pia) is harvested from wild plants around 15 years of age, and roasted over hard wood in an adobe oven. The roasted pias are then ground by hand and fermented with ambient yeast in open top