Tradición Chagoya - Los Cuerudos Joven Tobala
CATEGORY: Young/Joven Tobalá.TYPE OF AGAVE: Tobalá (potatorum), Wild agave.MASTER PALENQUERO: Petronilo Rosario Altamirano.ZONE: Las Margaritas, San Pedro Totolapam, Oaxaca, MX.CONTENT: Bottled in origin in a bottle of 750 ml.
SIGHT: Crystalline and brilliant, defined pearls.SMELL: Earthy citric tones that blend with agave and banana and hot sweet combinations.TASTE: Lightly astringent at first, honey and caramel with a fruit flavour and earthy.
100% AGAVEALCOHOLIC GRADE: 43%OVEN: Underground Conical river rock oven.GRINDING: Mill, circular stone pulled by horse.FERMENTATION: In wooden cyprus tubs (árbol ahuehuete mexicano).DISTILLATION: Double distillation in copper still.STABILITY: According to the standards of quality of Tradition Chagoya.
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Oaxaca was dominated by a group of noble natives belonging to the Zapotec and Mixtec cultures. King Cosijoeza, ruler of the city of Zaachila, had a daughter to whom he gave the name of “Donají” meaning “grand soul”. The Mixtecs and Zapotecs had a series of violent disputes, causing the Mixtecs to take revenge of the King by sacrificing his daughter, the Princess Donají, she was laid to rest near theAtoyac river.
It is said that years later when her body was found, it was still in perfect condition, and from her head beautiful species of wild lilies had grown, this image was immediately converted to be the symbol of the Zapotec town.