Montelobos

A collaboration between master distiller Iván Saldaña and Bacardi-owned House of Cuervo, Montelobos sits at the quality end of the non-artisanal mezcal market with a genuine botanical and mineral complexity approaching estate artisanal producers at a mass-distribution price point. Saldaña's own agave research — he wrote the definitive academic survey of Mexican agave species — gives Montelobos an intellectual credibility that most commercial mezcals lack.