Lamata Masparillo is produced by Maximino Cruz using maguey Masparillo (Agave maximiliana var. katharinae). Maximino Cruz is part of a Tepehuano family near Mezquital, Durango. The Tepehuanes are an indigineous people who live in Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas. The Tepehuano language is divided into three major branches with Southern Tepehuano being spoken in the municipalities of Mezquital and Pueblo Nuevo. The agaves in this spirit were cooked in an underground pit oven, milled by hand with an axe, fermented in pine tubs, and double distilled in a copper/wood viejo still.
An earlier edition of Masparillo was produced by Felipe Soto and bottled under the Amormata label. For that bottle, see: Amormata Masparillo – Felipe Soto
