Mezcal Vago Ensamble en Barro Tio Rey (700ml / 49.5%) Reposado with notes of roasted maguey

with notes of roasted maguey

with forward notes of encino

and the upper montera is an upside down cone made of wooden staves held together by metal rings (like a conical wooden barrel open at the large bottom end and closed with a barrel end at the top)

crystal clear decanter features the classic Clase Azul shape

Mezcal Vago Ensamble en Barro Tio Rey (700ml / 49.5%) Reposado with notes of roasted magueyVago Ensamble de Barro is from Sola de Vega is an Ancestral mezcal made using hand maceration and clay pot distillation. It has a soft bouquet of pine needles and fertile earth. Its full body has an essence of charred cinnamon and finishes with notes of pumpkin and chestnuts. Each release of this bottle has drastic differences in the percentages of each type of agave that is used. A Vago Ensamble de Barro from 2015 could be significantly different