Review #103: Nose has chocolate, earth, wet leaves, petrichor, wool, and raspberry. Palate is chocolate, wet earth, sweet wood, cinnamon, corn, raspberry, lime, with some grass and sweet mint on the finish.

This is a delicious combo of earthy chocolate and raspberry, which is also one of my favorite ice-cream combos. The complexity isn’t very crazy here admittedly but I just love the bold flavors that are present. One of my personal favorite profiles I’ve had, and if there was more cohesive surrounding flavors this would be a knockout.

Review #102: The nose has chlorine, dandelions, milk chocolate, a bit butyric, and rosemary. The palate has leather, dandelion, milk chocolate, dried honeydew, milk, caramel, and the finish has rosemary and oregano.

A weirder tobala for sure. Usually I tend to find some sort of dominant note of florals, fruits, or pine, but this had lots of leather, chocolate, and herbs. Sure, a bit of a weird dandelions note and a soft melon, but definitely not what I expected from it. Anyway, the flavors work well besides some noticeable off notes I found that keep this from being great.

Review #102: On the nose is sweet sharpie, fresh watermelon, and pinesol. The palate has sweet jalapeno, watermelon juice, pine, lemongrass, grapefruit, lemon oils, vanilla, while the finish has some bitter smokes herbs and black pepper.

This is a really fun mix of the vegetal tepextate and fruity tobala. The jalapeno and sweet watermelon play well off eachother having a back and forth alongside the bright acidity. The finish is anticlimactic and what holds this back for me with a bit too much brash smokey bitterness.

Review #101: On the nose I get jalapeno, mango, light cream, cotton, licorice, old wood, cola, and dried herbs. The palate has licorice, wood, lemon, cola, fresh coffee, mango skin, and rosemary.

I find this really fun with its herbal profile alongside some soft fruits and darker cola notes. I found it leans more into the bicuixe flavors I would expect. A bit thin overall but it has a good intensity and length to it.

Review #100: The nose is very aromatic, buttery croissant, apricot, fresh honey, vanilla, banana bread, roasted nuts, cinnamon, sweet tobacco, and wet clay. The palate has more croissant, banana bread, apricot, peach, honey, milk chocolate, roasted nuts, and nearing the finish some cinnamon, moss, and clay.

This is one of the prettiest mezcals that I have had. The nose is so aromatic. It fills the air with this smell reminiscent of a nice cigar and a soft bready sweetness. The palate follows as expected, with a beautiful development from a light fruity sweet start to a more earthy and nutty finish. It’s both delicate but full of flavor. Truly amazing and a new ceiling for this kind of profile

52.3% abv, Lot S-19-EBCSNM-20

Review #99: Nose has leather, cinnamon, apple, raisins, tobacco, and a dusty earthiness. Palate has more of the cinnamon covered apples, raisins, leather, sweet tobacco, lime, champagne, a bit metallic, and the finish has a dusty earth and clay minerality.

This is a solid bottle and one of my firsts. I found it a bit hard to judge for a while until about halfway through. It took time for me to get those fruit notes, but the really shine with the dusty earth, cinnamon, and leather. This was a predominantly espadin forward batch so i look forward to trying more variable batches in the future.

Review #98: The nose is so pungent, with lots of strawberries and cream, pineapple, minty toothpaste, bubblegum, butyric acid, puke, the crap you pick out of your toenails, rotting wood, cotton candy, parmesan, and a grungy car shop. The palate has more strawberries and cream, a big dollop of mint toothpaste, cotton candy, bubblegum, parmesan, butyric acid, and lasting acidity like pineapple on the finish.

I’m going to start off saying, and I’m surprised noone else has, this has so much butyric. A mix of what you pick out from under your toenails and puke. The aromas seriously travel across an entire room and the further they travel, the more the butyric dominates. It’s 100% a mood pour and there’s so much I like about it but this is just weird. Love the juicy fruity profile this has and although I’m sensitive to the butyric I find myself mostly enjoying it with the rest of the profile. This is wild stuff and it’s really hard for me to rate. This honestly feels oddly like a 3/5 and a 5/5 at the same time for me, so I’ll meet myself in the middle here.

47.1% abv, lot SLR009/17

Review #97: Nose is full of blueberry, cotton candy, grape candy, candied rose, melons, wet granite, salt, and roasted brussel sprouts. The palate has more grape candy, lemon, vanilla, melons, rose, salty minerality, and some smoke on the finish.

This is awesome for the price. Really big and bright aromas and flavors with a moderate complexity. Realistically, this is around as good as it gets for this price point. There’s minor astringency and enough smoke for the flavors to be a touch harsh, but other than that this is really great and probably something I’ll keep on hand

49.2% abv, batch JAME1122

Review #96: Nose is bold. Cream cheese icing, vinegar, bbq sauce, raisin, plum, wine-y, cheddar jalapeno chips, and tart cherry. Palate has spoiled honeydew, vinegar, cooked fruits like cherry, raisin, plum, very wine like, earthy, cinnamon cake, and dark chocolate with a long finish.

I love this one. It reminds me so much of wine. The mix of fruits, the vinegar, the earthy notes, they all are coming together make this extraordinary. There’s such a punch of that tartness up front with a dark base that i really dig. Hands down my favorite of the creador samples that i had the pleasure of trying.

This sample was provided to me free of charge with no strings attached.

48.3% abv, JAEN1122

Review #95: nose has pine, forest floor, cotton candle, vanilla, lemon oil, paint, orange oils, lemongrass, and lemon scented sharpie. Palate is more paint, cream, fresh orange, wet clay, raspberry, lemongrass, moss, and black pepper.

There are a lot of similarities that you can notice in this from the lumbre and espadin. I think the lumbre notes are more dominant here, adding to the soft nature of everything. It’s just missing some of my more favorable notes i found in the lumbre and espadin seperately. I found this to lack intensity but it’s flavors are definitely very enjoyable.

This sample was provided to me free of charge with no strings attached.

48.4% abv, batch JAEC1122

Review #94: Nose has overripe banana, cherry, chalk, sweet grass, cream, sweet tart, vanilla, milk chocolate, charred wood, and cooked potato. Palate has cinnamon, red hots candy, chocolate, leather, wood, vanilla, sweet smoke, toasted nuts, hemp seed, cherry, earthy, and cooked potato.

This is some good stuff. Really fun savory notes i get on this like the nuts, seeds, and especially the potato. A good balance of sweet and tart flavors from the fruits with the darker earthy notes really add a lot of great complexity to this. Lots going on here as it opens up in the glass as well.

This sample was provided to me free of charge with no strings attached.

48.3% abv, batch JALU1122

Review #93: nose is delicate with fresh wall paint, cream, tire rubber, lemon oil, perfumey, cotton, sweet leather, sweet tobacco, and a salty minerality. The palate has a noticeably soft mouthfeel. Cream, paint, clay, cotton, powdered sugar, vanilla, lemon oils, sweet mint, green apple, and a salty minerality.

This is a very easygoing pour with nicely delicate and soft flavors and aromas. The nose and palate are a bit light for my personal preferences, but it’s objectively very well done and quite pretty. The mouthfeel has absolutely no alcohol burn and the flavors meld together very well. A good one to drink and relax.

This sample was provided to me free of charge with no strings attached.

47.9% abv, batch 0122VtR

Review #92: nose is sweet leather, wax, metallic, light earthiness, a touch of fresh cut wood, tons of sweet florals, powdery perfume, and canteloupe. Palate is corn, burnt peach, fresh cantaloupe, orange oils, more florals, sweet mint, and some carmelized veggies on the finish.

Very easygoing and a bit delicate. Really good flavors overall but they are definitely on the softer side with the florals as a main note on the nose, and a rather light and sweet palate. I could easily drink this all day.

47% abv, 08/18 distillation date, lote BOO15AR4719

Review #91: Nose is cotton, mild florals, milk, leather, and old wood. Palate is vanilla, cotton, caramel, milk, vanilla, leather, weird musty funk, almonds, and milk chocolate.

This is a sneaky one, and I didn’t really like it at first. Although it is kind of mild in flavor and aroma, it has a nice savory aspect that i enjoy. It needed some time to open up and my palate to adjust to it, but as it does it really glows up. It’s really easygoing and soft too.

47% abv, 12/18 distillation date, lote B0013TO4719

Review #90: Nose is very fruity with strawberry, lemonade, orange juice, and sweet florals. Palate follows it all with strawberry, lemonade, mango, peach, watermelon, lychee, and orange.

Fruit bomb! Holy cow, every time I tried looking for more than just fruits on this, I kept coming back to write down another fruit. It’s really juicy and delicious. Not too sweet either, it’s like a bunch of fresh fruits. Throw complexity out the window because I don’t care that this doesn’t really have it, this is still a delight to drink.

47% abv, 04/19 distillation date, lote B0019CU4719

Review #89: nose has bubblegum, strawberry, cherry, and milk chocolate. Palate has bubblegum, strawberry, cherry, lime, vanilla, milk chocolate, mint, and on the finish there is pine, cinnamon, bitter herbs.

Really nice expression of cuish. A lot of fruits show up with a good balance of more bitter notes surrounding it and leading into the finish. The downside is the moderate intensity of these flavors, as it’s a bit mild overall. Overall though this is pretty enjoyable

40% abv, batch AR-V-18

Review #88: Nose is evergreen, mint candy, apple, and light florals. Palate has some weird chemicals, slightly creamy, floral, apple, cinnamon, and pear.

What’s really hurting this is the abv. It’s just too light overall. The flavors are good but they are not present enough to be enjoyable. If this were at a slightly higher proof like their other offerings i think it would be a solid offering.

47% abv, batch RR-X-18

Review # 87: Nose is ashy, green banana, asparagus, and cinnamon red hots. Palate has vanilla, green banana, cigarette smoke, dry dirt, cinnamon red hots, and smoked jalapeño.

I must say, at 1 star on here at the time of writing this i was expecting the worst and I did not find that. The flavors were decent and the off notes weren’t too bad. It was a bit light on flavor the ashy notes were a bit brash, but i found this alright.

47% abv, Batch RS-IV-19

Review #86: nose is full of bubblegum, mint, pine, strawberry, and cream. Palate is mostly the same with strawberry, cream, lavender, rose, then on the finish is cinnamon, sweet mint and some pine.

As James said, this is full on bubblegum. I do get some moderate mint on this though that i find really strange. It’s almost sickly sweet like there is actually sugar in it. I like it but also i dont like it. There are definitely mixed feelings on this one.

46.82% abv, batch SN04-22 US

Review #85: Nose has bright orange oils and orange juice, tart pineapple, fresh mango, and sweet cream. The palate is fresh cream, mango, and juicy orange up front, then mid palate is fresh tobacco, sweet grassiness, carmelized squash, peach, rotten wet wood, mango skin, and then the finish has some clay and wet soil.

This is just so complex and full of flavor. A nice fruit bomb on the nose with a nice contrast showing up on the palate of sweet tobacco and vegetals with a funky earthy stuff going on. The aromas really pop out of the glass too. Really, really great