Unsurprisingly, the best ‘Agave Australis’ only grows in the Australia Outback. That’s the raw material used to make this extraordinary and exquisite Australian agave spirit. So, think Auscal, not Mezcal! Beyond the obvious, Porfidio’s Auscal is a singular, single-agave, single-origin, single-vintage, single-cask vegan agave craft spirit. Differently to Mezcal, Auscal applies the Galenical Method to extract the best from the Agave. After distillation, this agave spirit is then aged for 3 years in Australian whisky casks until burgeoning to its sublime maturity. From seedling to bottle, it took 14 years to make this bottle.
There really is no agave distiller like Porfidio. Porfidio is a single-agave, single-origin, single-terroir, single-vintage, single-varietal, single-barrel, first-growth, vegan agave craft spirit that is made from cold pressed, raw agave juice, instead of cooked agave, the normal method. Porfidio is then aged in virgin oak barrels until burgeoning to its sublime maturity status of an Anejo-Extra. From seedling to bottle, it took 18 years to make this bottle. The Y2005 Vintage is remarkably pure and integrated and ranks as one of the finest Porfidio bottlings.
There really is no agave distiller like Porfidio. Porfidio Plata is a single-agave, single-origin, single-terroir, single-vintage, single-varietal, single-barrel, first-growth, vegan agave craft spirit that is made from cold pressed, raw agave juice, instead of cooked agave, the normal method. From seedling to bottle, it took 10 years to make this bottle. The Y2013 Vintage is remarkably pure.
Porfidio Fraxinus is a single-agave, single-origin, single-terroir, single-vintage, single-varietal, single-barrel, first-growth, vegan agave craft spirit that is made from cold pressed, raw agave juice, instead of cooked agave, the normal method. Porfidio Fraxinus is not aged in oak barrels, the industry standard, but, uniquely, in rare Fraxinus wood barrels made from a single tree. From tree seedling to bottle, it took 150 years to make this very limited edition bottling of 1,000 bottles only! This is probably the most extraordinarily elegant, dry and sophisticated bottling Porfidio has ever produced.
As traditional distillers of cult-status agave spirits, we chose cacti and succulents from the desert as our thematic botanicals for this singular barrel-aged gin. Our spectrum of aromatic elements contains: 1. fresh juniper berries; 2. agave flowers; 3. tuna cactus flowers; and 4. pitaya cactus flowers. These four fractionally distilled elements are then suffused together with unfermented agave stem juice, the Fifth Element, and aged for 5 years in virgin Castanea Sativa barrels, adding the Sixth Element to our Opus Magnum. Gorgeous on the palate, full-bodied, with a layered, elegant mouthfeel.
As traditional distillers of cult-status agave spirits, we chose cacti and succulents from the desert as our thematic botanicals for this singular barrel-aged gin. Our spectrum of aromatic elements contains: 1. fresh juniper berries; 2. agave flowers; 3. tuna cactus flowers; and 4. pitaya cactus flowers. These four fractionally distilled elements are then suffused together with unfermented agave stem juice, the Fifth Element, and aged for 5 years in virgin Castanea Sativa barrels, adding the Sixth Element to our Opus Magnum. Gorgeous on the palate, full-bodied, with a layered, elegant mouthfeel.