Los Perdidos Mezcal Reposado Arroqueno SO20231114 Scott and Jenny Schultz's Jolie-Laide

Scott and Jenny Schultz's Jolie-Laide has built a cult following for making unusual California wines with intent and finesse

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A l'Aube de la Cote des Bar is the flagship

and his vineyards have been certified organic since 2005 — worked biodynamically

Los Perdidos Mezcal Reposado Arroqueno SO20231114 Scott and Jenny Schultz's Jolie-LaideArroqueo is one of the great slow agaves the plants behind this bottle were 18 to 23 years old and the Arellanes brothers distill it the old way, in Santa Catarina Minas, the Oaxacan village where mezcaleros still work with clay pot stills instead of copper. German, Bezaleel and Armando are the eleventh generation of their family to make mezcal here: maguey roasted in a wood fired earthen pit, then distilled in small clay ollas. This one rests about