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Nice body, good flavour. I like to recommend it

Lote 06-21
Nose has some leather funk, clay minerality, and sweet BBQ sauce (OG Baby Rays).
Taste comes through with more clay and pork BBQ! The 54.8% is on point and delicious. Some earthy notes and corn (like the Vago Elote). Slightly sweet but def one of the more savory mezcals I’ve tried. Other reviews for this batch below are spot on!
Review #228

Lot VDM-221 2022/03/23 45% aromas out of the bottle, are light smoke roasted agave. Flavors follow the suit, light smoke light toasted peppers.Then a nice roasted agave finish. This version is far better than the standard Vida.

Was thinking 3.5/5 stars but bumped it up to 4 given that I have only a sample and not a full bottle so can’t fully judge. Same batch as the other reviewers. At first pour the nose and palette is a magic marker— really wild lol. It opens up a bit as you drink it though and becomes a bit more complex. Mint, mesquite, obviously cacao, and some spice comes through. Once you get past the initial few tastes, the layers and complexity shine through a bit more and the dry, minerality from the clay comes through as well. Pretty solid but I like the other expressions from this brand a bit more!

48.8%, Batch JATM0524

Review #179: The nose has earth, dark chocolate, clay, roasted nuts, fresh coffee, anise, pine, eucalyptus, jalapeno, strawberry, and raisin.
The palate is very rich, with dark chocolate, nuts, coffee, earth, clay, caramel, plum, raisin, cinnamon, pine, anise, smoked wood, carmelized jalapeno, and cloves.

This is sooo good. It is like easy mode pulling notes out of this because it’s so complex but everything presents itself very well, I’m sure if i sat here another hour id pick plenty more notes from it. There’s something about the way that tepextate just rips through the clay that I adore. It’s this super solid base of those earthy mexicano clay notes along with terpy, green, herbal tepextate notes. The mouthfeel is superb and the flavors stay very rich and full all the way throught the palate and very long finish with the way it coats your mouth. Stellar stuff that I need a bottle of soon.

48.5% abv, Batch JAMC0524

Review #178: The nose has earth, clay, chocolate, caramel, plum, with some perfumey strawberry and pear whisping around on top.
The palate has a bit tangy up front with some sweet citrus, pear, and leather, then gets darker with plum, earth, caramel, clay, and chocolate.

I find myself liking mexicano maguey more and more lately. This one is really fun with a mix of these bright top notes jumping the big dark base notes. I find the clay thankfully pretty well balanced on this too for my palate. Excellent mouthfeel on these creadors as usual. There’s just something i can’t put my finger on that would make this jump the next rating up, it just doesn’t have quite big a enough wow factor, but it really is delicious.

48.8%, Batch JAC00524

Review #177: The nose has clay, leather, coffee beans, hay, wet wood, banana, and soft florals.
The palate has clay, leather, coffee, banana, soft sweet florals, and a gentle ashy wet wood on the finish.

This is some pretty classic clay arroqueno stuff going on. It’s very soft has some delicate notes surrounding everything but it does have a good amount of flavor too. The clay is just a bit too much for my preference here and not my favorite of profiles but it is good nonetheless with the savory flavors.

Bottle 348
Batch RS-IV-19

Bottle to Terra cota copita. Banana taffy, wintergreen, and light smoke on the nose. Taste is mineral forward, so much so that it comes across as metallic. There’s also cooked root vegetable notes. Very smooth, drinks below it’s proof. Thin in the mouth but with a long finish.

Lot 03-22

Nose: nice citrus, honeydew, stewed fruits, peach, mango, damn this is fruity and good. Reminds me of apricot cheese from Trader Joe’s. Slightly cheesy a bit of spearmint and basil

Palate & Finish: fruits continue. Stewed mango, funky honeydew, some slate, nice leatheriness and limeade as it moves into the finish. Finish is pickled peppers, a bit of spearmint and basil like the nose.

This is absolutely terrific. If blind I’d probably not guess it’s Azul although it does draw some parallels to the Defino batch from a few years ago. So much wonderful fruit notes with a great mouthfeel. Love it

Batch JAENCO524 ABV 48.4%

Nose: you get the cacao, a bit of mint, mesquite, vanilla, coffee

Palate & Finish: creamy on the front, some vanilla, chocolate, spiced hot chocolate, jalapeños moving into the finish. Finish is pretty mesquite heavy with coffee, more cacao, reminds me of scotch as the smoke and black pepper sits with you.

This is interesting but I find I enjoy José Alberto’s other expressions a bit better. Just so peppery I have trouble getting deeper into other notes.

Ensamble con cacao Jose Alberto Pablo 48.4% Batch JAENCO524
Aroma: not what I expected up front, alcohol clay mineral mild one line note. I would have guessed it was a single agave espadin. sugar.
Palette: cherry earthy dry tobacco bitter sweet. maple. creme brulee spread on burnt toast. cooked fruit. there is a cacao note obvs present in this, particularly on the finish. I’ve had a few destilados con cacao and this among the better ones. not a fan of these when its novelty however I can appreciate if its about resource use, custom or celebration.

Tepextate & Mexicano 48.8 % Batch JATM0524
Aroma: this aroma is banging. loving it. an autumn sea breeze, minty, herbal, strawberry jam.
Palette: this is cool! summer fruit, hawaiian punch, that flinty mineral note coming through, on over to the cacao topsoil leather wet gravel side.

Tobala Jose Alberto Pablo 48.5% Batch JAT00524
aroma: loving this aroma. up front a minty tropical fruit. blackberry. milk chocolate butterfinger, custard.
palette: tasty first sips. fun. getting floral water lavender papaya. cherrywood. rather different ride with this tobala than others i’ve tried. while for the aroma is pleasant, as I sit with this I’m finding a mineral profile that is overpowering in my mouth. this is a time and place for me, probably a 1 time pour before I move on to others type. Don’t let that sway others from trying, theres really nice aspects to this I’m sure will appeal to others!

Coyote Jose Alberto Pablo 48.8% Batch JAC00524
aroma: cinnamon, spice, soft bark. (arroqueño and sierra negra notes going through my mind) pleasant aromas that draw me in.
palette: soft while flavorful. woody, a fragrant note clove perhaps, citrus lemon kind of a dry finish, grapefruity. hardly any heat.

Tasted this in Boston at Bar Pollino a few days ago– would recommend going there for a drink, great mezcal selection, and the restaurant above it Faccia a Faccia for dinner! Anyways, didn’t get the bottle info but enjoyed this as I have with just about every El Jolgorio pour I’ve had. I haven’t had many Tobaziches that aren’t clay pot distilled so this was a different flavor profile obviously. Keeps with the Tobaziche/Karwinskii grassy, earthy, herbacious flavor profile but with less earthy, thickness and a bit thinner and copper minerality. A bit of fruitiness mixed in there like cherry or red fruit. Really good stuff but not sure I would buy a whole bottle!

At first taste, this one was not for me. But the more I sipped, the more I actually enjoyed this. Reminds me a lot of a Tobala I sampled in Minas last year. Super lemony/citrusy on the nose and palette for this one. Almost like limoncello but far less sweet. Again, the clay pot minerality adds some great texture and earthiness to this. Really unique flavor profile, smoked Sprite haha another solid release. Really diggin this brand!

EDIT: Just saw the review below me that this smells like Benedictine– which I think they meant BETADINE lol– and that’s so accurate haha!

Not always the biggest fan of Mexicano independently but really enjoyed this sample of the Mexicano Capon. The clay pot minerality adds a nice dimension to this and a thicker mouthfeel. Very perfumey and chocolatey as I tend to get from many Mexicanos but the capon style adds another dimension of sweetness to this expression which cuts the burn as well and makes this a smoother drink. Definitely a spicy, peppery finish that is flavorful and not all burn, similar to an espadin, like some other Mexicanos. Great stuff.

Another 4.5/5 pour from Creador. I almost gave this 5 but I feel like it’s missing just a little something. First off, I’ve never had Tepe and Mexicano paired together in an ensamble in isolation before and this is just a fantastic combo! Also, really interesting to have the two agaves cultivated in different regions, you can definitely taste that in the profile and the Chichicapam is lingering in here and I love it– such a distinct flavor from that region.

The nose and flavor profile here is like a big bowl of halloween candy that has the chocolate and fruity candies mixed together. Eating a snickers that kinda tastes like skittles haha but better because it’s mezcal. Fruity, bell pepper, jalapeno and black pepper from the tepeztate with a chocolatey undertone from the Chichi soil that slides right into the chocolatey, perfumey mexicano. I will be buying a bottle of this it’s incredibly unique. The first sip I said “whoa” lol

Really big fan of this! It has a lot of Arroqueno notes and that makes sense given this is an Americana Coyote and not Lyobaa. The clay is present all the way through in this, as it was also fermented in clay pots which is cool as hell. Super soft but complex and NOT thin by any means. Tons of flavor from a bit of tropical fruitiness, tartness like licorice, floral, spice, and leather. Minimal burn. I’d imagine a whole bottle would be quite complex after it aerates a bit. As I’m finishing this review and sipping, also getting some perfume on the nose, some hickory and another flavor that I can’t quite pin down! So good!

Lote: AA18

First time trying Quiereme Mucho, and I wasn’t expecting to like this one as much as I do.

Aroma is soft, creamy with a hint of vegetal greens. Palette is similar to a creamy, caramel Espadin with a subtle nuance of green-Tepextate. I like the price point, and find myself gravitating towards this bottle for a casual sipper.