Rezpiral Simeone & Apolonia Ramirez Tobaziche S6 070226ROBUST a picnic or the elegant

a picnic or the elegant accompaniment to a gourmet dessert

just north of Montalcino

a fact that gets far less airtime than it should

and Cabernet Sauvignon

Rezpiral Simeone & Apolonia Ramirez Tobaziche S6 070226ROBUST a picnic or the elegantTobaziche does not look like an agave. It looks like a tree: a long woody trunk topped with a shock of leaves, part of the karwinskii family, and it takes well over a decade in the ground before anyone can harvest it. The Ramirez family works with it in Oaxaca the way their people always have, roasting the agave in an earthen pit, fermenting in wood and distilling in small batches. Rezpiral bottles each of those batches separately, so what you are