Together with
@hedonism_wines we’re pleased to announce the arrival of this exclusive batch pick 🍾
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Pechuga de Mole Negro - Amatengo | Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca | January 2023 | Sergio, Sara, y Luis | Batch LEJ-06 | 78 bottles | Exclusively at Hedonism
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Here at palenque Gozona (meaning ‘help from the heart’ in Zapotec), while Sergio and Luis take care of production, Sara (wife and mother respectively) has become well known as an excellent cook of traditional local cuisine. In fact she regularly represents the Ejutla region as a recognised ‘cocinera traditional’ at Oaxaca City’s
@centro.gastronomico.oaxaca (pic.2) and other events.
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Mole negro is the ultimate celebratory dish of Oaxaca - think intense chicken curry made with a huge number of herbs and spices, always including toasted dry chillies and cacao (giving its striking dark colour), and often unique to a family lineage.
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This International Women’s Week it’s an honour to showcase the talents of Sara Ramirez Martínez, who’s family recipe mole negro is the star of this batch, with 10kg having been added to the still on second distillation (pic.3).
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Before that stage, ripe maguey Espadín (A.Angustifolia) were harvested from the hills of Ejutla by Luis & Sergio, and the piñas roasted in an earthen horno, crushed by oxen-pulled tahona, and open air fermented for 9 days with local well water.
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Normally there’s just a single distillation here. Well, a 2-in-1 distillation using a copper alembic still with a reflux plate and a refrescadera water bath. But for this batch the mole negro was added to a second distillation to create this pechuga style distillate.
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Expect huge, mouth-filling mole negro intensity 🥘. For a try, join us for an in-store tasting, amongst surely the UK’s best stocked agave shelves, at
@hedonism_wines in Mayfair, 4.30-7.30pm, Friday 10th May. Bottles available now from Hedonism, in store or online.
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Muchas gracias a Sara, Sergio, y Luis (pic.7) por este lote familiar excepcional, también algunas fotos 🙏🏼
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