In 2019, I worked with Mezcal Tosba on an exclusive deal with Centro and Popol Vuh restaurants in Minneapolis to showcase the agave program. We brought in four expressions; Espadin, Tobala, Pechuga and Warash. This turned out to be a one time run for Tosba in Minnesota. If you see a bottle at Centro, try it because I don’t believe we will be getting it back anytime soon.

The Producer: Mezcal Tosba is a microbusiness founded by two cousins from San Cristóbal Lachirioag, Oaxaca, Mexico. Concerned by the increasing migration from their home region of Cajonos-Villa Alta in the Sierra Juárez mountains, they decided to form a business that would rescue the disappearing mezcal production and bring economic opportunity to the area. Mezcal Tosba is created by using traditional, and what is now called sustainable, agricultural methods of harvesting and distillation passed down by generations of farmers and mezcaleros from the region of Cajonos-Villa Alta of the Sierra Juárez in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.