Pal'Alma Higo Agave Spirit

Pal'Alma Higo Agave Spirit 750ml

In 2018, during a visit to Denmark to present agave spirits in a tasting at Noma, Erick Rodriguez (Pal’alma) was served a glass of water that had been steeped with fresh fig leaves for three days. Figs had been a favorite fruit throughout Erick’s life—a fig tree grows outside his home in Ramos Millan Ixtacalco—but the use of the fresh leaf was new and compelling, a different way to understand the flavor of the plant. The impression of that experience consumed Erick after his return to Mexico, and upon his next collaborative visit with Maestro Mezcalero Asunción Matilda Vargas, they determined to create a mezcal to celebrate it. Rested nearly six years in glass, this batch is a deeply personal expression of sense memory.

Destilado de agave produced in Tepeojuma, Puebla, Mexico

Maestro Mezcalero Asunción Matilda Vargas

100% Espadilla (Agave angustifolia) capón (castrated) for one year prior to harvest to concentrate sugars

Cooked in a traditional pit oven made of earth and stone

Milled by hand using an axe

Fermented in a shallow stone well

Distilled twice using a hybrid Filipino-style pot still of clay and wood with an external condenser made of copper (refrescadera)—honestly, a totally wild still

Fresh fig leaves and fresh figs, cut in half, are added to the second distillation

Rested nearly 6 years before bottling

55% ABV (ABV may vary batch to batch)