Tutsi is the sacred agave spirit of the Wixárika people, indigenous communities from Northwest Jalisco globally renowned for their intricate chaquira (beadwork) and their ancestral distillation traditions.

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​This exceptional spirit, crafted by Don Rafael, is made from wild-foraged maguey masparillo. It undergoes a single distillation inside a hollowed-out tree trunk—a unique technique found nowhere else on earth, which has officially given this historic apparatus the name of the Wixárika distiller.

 

Most batches are less than 80 liters. 

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TABERNERO Don Rafael Carrillo Pizano

 

AGAVE A. Guadalajarana (Maguey Masparillo)

ELEVATION 6400'

SOIL Rocky, high nitrogen content

CLIMATE Temperate

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VILLAGE Tatei Kie, La Guayaba, Jalisco

 

OVEN/FUEL Earthen pit, volcanic rock / oak

 

MILL Hand chopped with wooden mallet

 

FERMENT Rock pit, wild yeast

 

DISTILLATION 1 X Huichol still with copper pipe, Wixarika style

 

NOTES 

Aroma – BBQ brisket, stone fruit 

Taste – Mint, cooked plum

Texture – Fresh, bold, with velvet sweet finish

 

UPC 613739981504

ABV 40-48

750ml/200ml

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