Cinco Sentidos
PM Spirits' curator project. Mixed catalog: Tío Pedro Hernández Arrellanes (Santa Catarina Minas), Amando Alvarado Álvarez (Santa María Ixcatlán), and Alberto Martínez (Santa Catarina Albarradas) work in clay pots; the rest of the catalog uses copper or hybrid stills. Every bottle names the specific maestro.
Cinco Sentidos is a PM Spirits curator project — every bottle names the specific maestro and village. The catalog splits by producer:
- Clay-pot bottles: Tío Pedro Hernández Arrellanes (Santa Catarina Minas), Amando Alvarado Álvarez (Santa María Ixcatlán), Alberto Martínez (Santa Catarina Albarradas). Per drink5sentidos.com direct: “Clay pot stills made in Santa María Atzompa are maintained by Pedro. The clay pots lend a fuller body and mineral texture to his spirits.”
- Copper-pot bottles: Tío Tello, Eduardo “Lalo” Perez Cortez, Marcelo Luna, Félix Macedas Jinez, Isaac Cruz (hybrid), José Inés Vieyra.
The Marteño con Espadín is a genuine collaboration between Cinco Sentidos’s Tío Pedro and Lalocura’s Eduardo “Lalo” Barriga — distilled at the La Esperanza palenque in Santa Catarina Minas.
Sources
Catalog
12 SKUs — 4 ancestral ★Bottles from this producer we've verified in US distribution — each row cites a source. ★ marks true ancestral: the cited source must explicitly state both clay-pot distillation AND wooden-mallet or tahona milling for this specific bottle. Producer-line statements ("our whole line uses X") do not qualify — verification must be per-bottle. Copper-distilled, shredder-milled, or citation-gap bottles are listed but not starred.
| Bottle | Maestro | Agave | Still | Mill | ABV | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ★ 5 Sentidos Espadín (Tío Pedro) Santa Catarina Minas. Double-distilled in clay pots. ABV varies 47.5-51% by batch. | Tío Pedro Hernández Arrellanes | Espadín (Angustifolia) | Clay pot | Wooden mallet | 47.5% | verify → |
| ★ 5 Sentidos Arroqueño (Tío Pedro) | Tío Pedro Hernández Arrellanes | Arroqueño | Clay pot | Wooden mallet | 50% | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Marteño con Espadín (Tío Pedro & Lalo) Collaboration between Tío Pedro (Cinco Sentidos) and Lalo (Lalocura), distilled at La Esperanza palenque, Santa Catarina Minas. Clay-pot distilled but mechanical shredder milling — does not meet strict Ancestral criteria (which require mazo or tahona milling). | Tío Pedro + Eduardo "Lalo" Barriga (Lalocura) | Espadín, Marteño (Karwinskii) | Clay pot | Mechanical shredder | — | verify → |
| ★ 5 Sentidos Papalometl (Amando Alvarado) Santa María Ixcatlán. Fermented in rawhide. | Amando Alvarado Álvarez | Papalometl (Potatorum) | Clay pot | Wooden mallet | 45.4% | verify → |
| ★ 5 Sentidos Sierra Negra (Alberto Martinez) Santa Catarina Albarradas. Double-distilled in clay pots. | Alberto Martínez | Sierra Negra (Americana sp) | Clay pot | Wooden mallet | — | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Puntas de Espadín Two copper alembic stills. High-proof punteado style. | Eduardo "Lalo" Perez | Espadín | Copper | Tahona | — | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Espadín con Mandarina 'Tío Tello' El Nanche, Miahuatlán. Copper still with mandarin infusion. | Eduardo "Lalo" Perez Cortez | Espadín + mandarina | Copper | Tahona | — | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Pechuga de Mole Poblano Hybrid Filipino still for first distillation. | Marcelo Luna | Espadilla (Angustifolia) | Hybrid | Tahona | 48.2% | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Candelillo Zapotitlán, Puebla. | Félix Macedas Jinez | Candelillo (Karwinskii sub-varietal) | Copper | Tahona | — | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Cuishe (Tío Tello & Lalo Perez) Miahuatlán. | Tío Tello + Eduardo Perez | Cuishe (wild) | Copper | Tahona | — | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Blanco (Isaac Cruz) Copper-clay hybrid still — not full clay-pot, not starred. | Isaac Cruz | Maguey Blanco | Hybrid | Tahona | — | verify → |
| 5 Sentidos Chino (José Inés Vieyra) | José Inés Vieyra | Maguey Chino (wild) | Copper | Tahona | — | verify → |