The Melate tasting box is the single best way to experience broad variety of extremely high quality mezcal with the absolute least effort. Here you get an entire liter of top tier mezcal for $150 including multiple expressions from three distinct producers. If you want to understand mezcal you need to explore it's four most important qualities - we call them the four Ps. People - the most important thing in the quality and flavor of any mezcal are the people who make it. Plants - like wine, the type of plant matters, generic diversity equals flavor diversity. Place - like grape growning, where an agave is grown is a crucial factor in the ultimate flavor of the spirits. Process - this one is tied to all three other P's, but each mezcalero, region and agave has it's own unique process for production. These are the same factors that work together to create the concept of "terroir" in viniculture. No other spirit can boast a more obvious link to the age old concept and understanding it starts with the Mezcal Tasting Box. The 10x100ml sample bottles in the set are as followes: Tepexate, Madrecuicxe, Lumbre and Tobala distilled by Agustin Guendelain Maya. Espadin distilled in '95 by Agustin's father Toribio. Jabali-Madrecuixe, Pulequero-Espadin, Barril-Mexicano-Coyote and Tepextate distilled by Hermogones Vasquez Garcia. All the maestros featured in the box are located in the village of Longoche near San Luis Amatlan. Don't miss this opportunity to explore mezcal like never before.