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A super-posh Mezcal is launching next week. Corte Vetusto is a Mezcal maker that sticks to the traditions of the drink. Its distillation exclusively occurs in wood-fired clay pots using Sierra Negro agave, a rare sub-variety of Agave Americana. The hearts of the Sierra Negra agave are hand-mashed in a canoa (wooden vessel) with wooden mallets and left to naturally ferment in open-topped wooden vats, before the mash is then twice distilled in 4, 60 litre wood-fired clay pots.
