Don Amado Mezcal Rustico CS20230516 Gamet's Caractères draws from a

Gamet's Caractères draws from a perpetual reserve spanning decades—blended with vintages reaching back to the house's founding moment in Mardeuil

single distiller

and the 2009 vintage in this large-format bottle is a celebration wine: a great Right Bank vintage

The Sec version channels Petit Manseng's intensity into a dry

Don Amado Mezcal Rustico CS20230516 Gamet's Caractères draws from aSanta Catarina Minas is the Oaxacan village known for distilling mezcal in clay pots instead of copper, and this is the bottling that put that style on most American back bars. The Arellanes family has been distilling here for generations: mature highland espadn is roasted about four days in wood fired earthen pits over guamchil and mesquite, fermented with wild yeast, then twice distilled in small ceramic stills fitted with bamboo tubes. Clay yields