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Article: Innovative Wine Trio Introduces Sombra: Artisanal Oaxacan Mezcal.
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- Food Weekly News
- Article date:
- April 23, 2009
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Richard Betts, MS and Dennis Scholl, partners in the avant-garde wine label Betts and Scholl, have joined forces with long time rose maven and wine industry innovator Charles Bieler (Three Thieves/Rebel Wine Co. and Bieler Pere et Fils) to bring their shared passion for artisan mezcal to fruition. Debuting to key markets across the United States this spring, Sombra (which means ‘shadow' in Spanish) is a complex, smoky single village mezcal made from organically farmed, single variety Espadin agave.
The inspired bottling is sourced from high elevation (8,000 feet) mountains outside of Oaxaca and is made precisely in the same fashion that it has been for over ...