Campanilla Del Palmar - Destilado Ensamble Chino y Cuerno (750ml)

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Producer	Campanilla Del Palmar
Country	Mexico
Region	San Luis Potosi
Style	Mezcal
Sku	210000024314
Size	750ml

Campanilla del Palmar Chino, Cuerno from M. Maria de la Luz is produced with and ensamble of Agave salmiana subspecies Crassispina that takes 15-25 years to reach maturity. During fermentation, 40 liters of pulque are added to jumpstart the sugar-yeast interaction. The distillation is done in extremely small batches using a campanilla style still.

The first batch to arrive in the US was produced in April 2023 and the breakdown of agave types is as follows: 60% Chino and 40% Cuerno.

Campanilla del Palmar is produced by the highly acclaimed Maestra Maria de La Luz Martinez and her two sons Jaime and Manuel Navarro in the community of Palmar Segundo in the state of San Luis Potosi, in Central Mexico. The family has been producing mezcal or destilados de agave using rare and very labor intensive clay pot stills for 8 generations.

The Navarro’s work with 4 different subspecies of agave Salminana that are locally known as Verde, Cuerno, Chino, and Blanco. For all of their destilados, they only ferment the agave juice, the fibers from the heart of the agave, and pulque, which helps to jump-start the fermentation process.

Unlike the Filipino stills, which have an exit spout in the top chamber of the still, their stills are very different in that the top clay pot chamber (caparote) has a smaller 15-liter clay pot hanging inside it that is used for collecting the condensed spirits. The suspended catchment vessel resembles a little bell, or campanilla, which has historically been referred to as being a Mongolian type of still.