Cinco Sentidos Tobala Cultivado, Alberto Martinez (99.2 proof)

This small bottling is one of the first batches of cultivated Tobalá that Alberto Martinez Lopez has ever produced. In 2017, Alberto transplanted one year old Tobalá onto a single hectare of fertile land and proceeded to meticulously care for the plants for five years. In 2023, some of the plants began sprouting quiote stalks. Alberto cut these stalks at their base and allowed the agaves to sit in the field for another year.

This Tobala was roasted in an underground oven with encino oak firewood and banana leaves for seven days, crushing the cooked agaves by hand with a wooden mallet, allowing them to ferment with spring water and encino de agua tree bark for four days, then double-distilling the mash to create one of the first distillations of cultivated Tobalá in the history of the village of Santa Catarina Albarradas.