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Mezcal from San Luis del Rio, Oaxaca

San Luis del Río is the Yautepec-region village best known as Del Maguey San Luis del Río's source. A small palenque cluster producing some of the most distinctive mountain-Oaxaca espadín on the US market – drier, more austere, more mineral than Tlacolula bottles, with a finish that reads cooler. The agave is uniformly espadín, but the village's water, altitude, and producer hands give it a register no Matatlán palenque can replicate. Bottles run $50-$90.