Had this as part of a large Venenosa sample so hard to properly judge, but I remember enjoying it and that it was fruity. Would definitely try again.

Very surprising to me for an Inaquidens! Cheesy but not so sour, and vegetal. I liked it.

Edition “S”

Smells like espadin. Smokey.
Taste is smoke, some rubber, medicinal flavor. Not so great for me.

Edition 29

Classic Cenizo flavors and smells. Gray. Wild. Delicious. Probably the best Cenizo that I’ve had.

This is the new 2024 version labeled as Agave Maximiliana – Maguey Lechuguilla

Nose: Meaty. Cat food!?
Palate. Fried chicken! Lots of black pepper spice and French fries. Pretty tasty.

Chalky and cheesy. Like drinking Swiss cheese. Not bad, but not really my style either.

LOT S-10-ECMAB-21, 49.9%
Espadin, Coyote, Mexicano, Arroqueño, Barril

Nose – I get that Elmer’s glue someone mentioned. Green apple, acetone, arroqueno smell, clay pot aroma, tamarind.

Palate – forward on the Mexicano and arroqueno flavors with a hint of coppery barril. Roasted meats – chicken and honeyed ham, raisins, black pepper, overripe papaya, tamarind.

This is GLE-003 by “Gilberto, Jesus, Marcos y Francisco” so I’m not sure where to review this under. Regardless:

Nose: Magic. Wow. Stone fruit, apricot, manzano banana, spice cake, custard, meringue, green peppers, mesquite wood, agave trunk, subtle smoke. The complexity of the flavors tells you right away that this is something special.
Palate: Rock candy, green peppers, minerals, spice cake, vanilla custard, apple bananas, 5-flavor pound cake. Sweet and savory at the same time.
Finish: Lingering taste of minerality and river rocks that stays with you.

This reminds me of a cross between El Jolgorio’s Coyote and Lamata’s Tepemete. Well worth purchasing the bottle.

Feb 2022 ds001-PQR
Bottle 595/799
Nose
Vanilla and tropical fruit – roasted pineapple, strawberry, plum, chalkiness, roasted agave, green and black pepper.

Palate
Warm at first (might have been a new bottle), fruity explosion, grapeseed, papaya, a bit of wild yeast, funky agave with similarity to jabali, orange bitters.

0223F(?)R 47%
Nose is classic tobasiche, like you walked into a dusty cathedral full of ancient wood and painted statues with a bit of leather added in. Peanut husks, wood chips, grilled watermelon, dill, nail varnish, pine cone, mountain air, sour funk.
Palate: Tastes like history and culture. Deep, juicy karwinskii flavors burst in your mouth and remind you of Mexican dishes such as mole wrapped in tortillas and leaves. Wood and green leaves, peanuts and walnuts, watermelon, apricots, cantaloupe, mint chocolate, cocoa powder, and pumpkin seeds.
I could drink this all day!

MAS-J 03/15/2022 49.5%
Nose: Peanut brittle, peanuts and husks, karwinskii trunk and greenness, green beans, smoke, brine, marzipan, amaretto, meringue, floral potpourri, gummy candy bag.
Palate: A juicy, rich explosion of flavors encapsulated in smoothness. It has peanut, green briny pine and seaweed that washed ashore, potpourri, perfect amount of sweetness.
Mouthfeel is very wet and smooth. Super flavorful and complex. Drinks way easier than its nearly 50%. Has that smooth, refined quality that you find in top quality mezcal.
Perfection in a bottle.

This was a delicious spirit, with tastes unlike anything I’ve experienced before. It generates memories and visions rather than anything you can compare it to, but I’ll attempt it.

The smell is amazing. At first kind of funky, earthy and mineral, I feel like I’m riding on a horse, smelling its sweat, its saddle, then settling down near an old campfire. Its funky, juicy, and addictive. I just can’t get enough. It reminds me of something from when I was younger, and I think it might be “new toy smell” as strange as that sounds.
The palate is right up there with some of the best sotol or bacanora I’ve had, smoky with a bit of cheese and just juicy goodness. The same rubbery “new toy” fragrance comes through in the taste, but in a totally good way. It’s a wild spirit that makes you feel like you’re lying under the stars, looking at the Milky Way with thunderheads flashing on the horizon. I definitely want more of this.

I’m trying to get the same notes as others here, but it’s just not happening for me.

Nose: From the first whiff, I’m mainly getting Ivory Soap. My dad used that growing up, so it’s ingrained in my senses. It doesn’t smell like any arroqueno I’ve ever had, and I’ve had many. It has a sour funk much like a salmiania or alto. Very much like a bubbling lye soap bucket.
Palate: Like taking a bite out of Ivory Soap, at first. Not very pleasant. However, inside of there I get other tastes – juniper berries, pepper, maybe some pine. It also kind of tastes like you’d imagine an industrial plastic bin would taste, which this was fermented in. No smoke or rubbery arroqueno tastes at all.

I’m shocked this is an arroqueno, and wondering if it has a lot to do with the water and/or the plastic bins it was fermented in. Not my thing.

A good cocktail mezcal. The barril flavor (coppery, green vegetal, nail polish remover) actually comes through pretty nicely on this one, and blends well with the smoky fruitiness of the espadin. I would suggest it’s sort of indicative of what blends can be if we ever need to “cut” other agave types with espadin due to sustainability.

Nose: classical tepeztate smells. Jalapeño, green bean, cilantro, dill, smoke and minerals.

Palate: Initially very sweet. Whipped cream, buttercream, jalapeño ice cream, woody greenness, moss, mulch, brine.

Light on the finish, which is a bit of a disappointment and the only major drawback.

Nose: Light smoke, pumpkin seed, sharpie pen.
Palate: Kind of bland, a bit hot and alcohol forward. Pumpkin seems and clean flavors. Maybe a good mixer.

Nose is prickly pear/cactus flower, sweet flowers, woody tobasiche, coppery notes.

Palate is a sweet explosion of tobasiche flavors. Green pepper, peanut, wood, pumpkin, minerality. Very quaffable.

Nose is slightly medicinal with citrus, star fruit, potpourri, smoke and minerals.
Palate is fairly clean, sweet with medium burn, slightly fruity with some stone. A bit of a disappointment.

Floral, fruity, bubblegum flavors. Delicious madrecuishe, lip-smacking good but totally different from most I’ve had.

2019 batch. This is a pretty typical madrecuishe. It has the classic aromas and taste of woody pine, jalapeño peppers and ancho chiles mixed with citrus and marzipan. This would be a great everyday madrecuishe sipper – accessible, enjoyable and you don’t have to worry about running out of your special bottles.