Yellowing color, smells buttery like popcorn. Pear.
Palate is immediately noticeable- oily and a little gamey, but the rattlesnake feels like a gimmick. Fun to say I’ve tried.
Super grassy nose with lettuce.
Taste is an explosion of greenness, lettuce and cedar. The cedar flavors are so prominent it almost feels too much, like you’re drinking something not for humans. But you get used to it. Definitely different from anything I’ve tried before.
Batch No. DRML-21 123/261
Bright pepper nose, some green trunk smell from the karwinskii, mineral notes. It smells better and better as you go.
Tastes like a smoky cuishe, with an after burn that continues that flavor profile. It’s intense. Meatiness is subsequent sips, peanut flavors and some clay in there. Stays a little too hot for my taste.
Nose of Wet rocks, mineralogy, a water fountain I remember playing around as a youth.
Taste compounds the flavors. A fiesta in my mouth! Delicious and juicy. I see why Real Minero is so sought after.
Green smoky nose, that flows into that floral, peppery and aromatic smell that characterizes tepeztate
Lots of rich tepeztate flavor, well balanced green flavors with some burn
Nose is delicious smoky agave and pepper, cheese
Palate is cheesy, green vegetal notes, spice. Very smooth. Long finish. Overall a balanced and delicious, juicy expression.
DS013-14 2018
Nose: white grapes, smoke, chocolate, roasted agave
Palate: Smoky and delicious. Grassy, orangey and briny. Hints of coffee, cacao and cola nut. Earthy like clay and cave rocks, that makes you think of the land and the soil that gave birth to this agave.
TB08-19 14/157
Grassy green and floral nose.
Delicious taste, starts grassy and then morphs into cavern stone, feels like I’m splunking. Very mineral to me.
Nose sharp, spicy coyote smells, grapey?
Palate full, smoky spice, a punch of wild desert Fox perched on a boulder ready to pounce. Charred wooden stakes. The color grey?
Finish is lots of leather, tobacco and a good cigar. Amazing mezcal!
Nose is green, cheesy and earthy. The palate follows, with lots of cheese and funky green
Delicious, earthy and meaty. Some of the mole flavors come through along with classic espadin flavors. Pollo Asado. Another taste explodes with green and fruity flavors, like peppers, bananas and fruit.
ARQTP 07-21
Nose cheesy, earthy, green. Honey. A Bees Knees cocktail.
Palate: full and delicious mouthfeel. The clay gives it such a full flavor, full of earthy cheese, celery salt, glazed ham, candied carrots. Long finish with candied veggies. Delicious!
The nose is a clean, bright fruity mix. Cantelope, grape, plantain, funky pineapple, vanilla custard, pumpkin seeds, dry riverbed, chalk.
The palate is an explosion that hits you layer by layer. The sip starts like the nose, fruity with melon notes, with a little funk. Then that taste morphs completely into a peppery, full bodied tobala-style flavor that hits you like a freight train – fruit punch, green veggies, spice and pepper. The flavor then morphs, again as the liquid is swallowed, into a delicious spicy mole sauce, earthy and peppery. A pleasant aftertaste of clear river water over rocks develops and lingers, and if you wait a few minutes becomes grass and hay. This is an experience that keeps going on. A tour de force. One of the best I’ve tried, so glad I chanced on the bottle!
Edition 2 PAPA04-20 51/298 Atelo Ramirez & Laura Arriaga
One of the most aromatic mezcals I’ve had. The nose is extremely floral, with aromas new to my brain that will cement the smell of tepeztate.
The palate is bursting with flavor – candied jalapeno ice cream, flowers, minerality, and green banana. This is a masterpiece and quintessential tepeztate, viscous and oily on the tongue.
Edition 26 / 2017 / 328/790 by Pedro Vasquez Ogario
A delicious expression full of flavor that really lingers, even 30 minutes after finishing on the palate.
Best madrecuishe I’ve had so far, so I bought a bottle.
This one is super clean and refreshing on entry, like wet stone. Aromas and taste of grape candy. Flavors burst in your mouth of peppers, melons, sandstone. Probably the juiciest mezcal I’ve tried to date.
LOT E-19-MC-20
2018 harvest. On the nose I get chilies, grape, and chocolate.
On the palate, toasted agave, grape, spice. Turns into fruit, banana maybe. Brown butter. My tongue goes numb. Has such a smoother and velvety feel than others. So complex and delicious.
The last taste of chocolate and leather. Then 30 minutes later I taste salty wet rocks and oysters. One of the best I’ve ever tried!
Bought a bottle: Edition 05, 2021, 59/140 by Pedro Vasquez
One of my first mezcal experiences, I tasted this as part of an Alipús flight, and loved it. It was presented to me as a “land, forest, sea” flavor profiles and this was the “sea” (blue label).
It has a definite salinity to it that evoked feelings of lounging on the beach in Cancun. I was so surprised that espadin from different regions could taste so different.
I liked it so much that I went out and bought a bottle, although now my tastes have matured much more so that this would not be one of my go-tos any more.
