Lot 01. As soon as I tasted this one I knew I needed to get a bottle of it! So unique and interesting! Fruity, herbal, and perfumy with peach, almost over-ripe pineapple, mint, fresh jalapeño, and sandalwood incense. Love this!

I love gin. To me this does not taste like gin, but it tastes like a really good herbal liqueur. The anise is up front but the other botanicals are there too in a really pleasant and tasty blend. This would make a great digestive.

These guys can really make a good pechuga! Very tea-like smell and flavors of darjeeling tea, manzanilla, anise, mint, and fuji apple. Tasty stuff!

I don’t normally like Pechugas all that much but this one is one of my favorites. I get a strong smell and taste of manzanilla tea, and anise, with a really pleasant meatiness.

This was a couple of our groups favorite at the Piedre Almas tasting. I got menthol, anise, fennel seed, and wet leaves. Quite good!

My favorite from the Piedre Almas line. It’s hot at 55% ABV but not in a rubbing alcohol, burn your tongue sort of way. It’s a very well made Mezcal that just takes all the flavors I love from Tepextate and punches me in the face with them!! Fresh jalapeño, green bell pepper, red chili flakes, and fresh New Mexico chili. I will be on the lookout for a bottle of this for sure.

Nice smooth Mezcal with flavors of chocolate, banana, clove and cinnamon.

Lot BCMC02-18. Wow! What a perfect blend of karwinskiis! Delicious and creamy with flavors of sweet pickle relish, vanilla ice cream, roasted artichoke, and something mineraly liked rusted iron. Tasty!

ETZTX01-18 This one had a waxy smell like crayons that translated into the taste. Once we recognized that it became really distracting to taste anything else. There was a raw chili flavor like Thai brds-eye chilies, and some bitter cacao and grapefruit pith. A rare miss by one of my favorite producers who have set the bar for agave spirits so high.

Lot 02P 18-206 This is the Pechuga de Brisket made for Las Almas Rotas Mezcaleria in Dallas by the Gracias a Dios family. This is made with partially smoked Texas brisket as well as fresh Oaxaca fruits and flowers in the third distillation, using their Espadin as a base. This is rich, sweet, and savory. A lot of smoke. Flavors of beef brisket, bbq sauce, papaya, banana, and marigolds. Really interesting and well worth trying if you’re in the area.

Didn’t get the lot number. Inoffensive but bland. I got some roasted agave and a little alcohol burn. I kept trying to detect something else but it just wasn’t there.

Lot 1818. Smelled more like a tequila but tasted fresh and minty with a light body and some caramel, pineapple, and river rocks. Short finish, not at all complex, and some alcohol burn despite the low abv.

YJ08-16. I had a different batch of this last year and it was a nice typical Tepextate. This batch tastes nothing like that one and I was initially very disappointed. I tried it again with no expectations and I found it tasted a lot more like a Salmiana agave. It has some funk like blue cheese and olives, some syrupy sweetness like maple syrup, and a minty finish. There is a hint of fresh bell pepper, almost like some Tepextate was blended in with the Salmiana. It’s not great, and definitely not worth the price, but it’s interesting.

Lot YJ07-16. This one seemed very tropical to me. Like freshy turned earth in a tropical greenhouse. Flowers and wet green plants with earthy spices of clove, cinnamon, and allspice. A delicious strawberry jam finish. I did a side by side with the Mezcalero 16 Madrecuixe and even though I prefer the Mezcalero 16, this one is very good.

I first tried this one at the end of the night after I had had several other Mezcals so I assumed that my palate was just blown out. I tried it again as the first drink of the night but my impression is the same. To me this is the opposite of smooth. I get a lot of alcohol burn both at the beginning and the end. The finish is much Boozier then I would expect from this ABV. In fact all that I get on the finish is alcohol. The taste is very black pepper forward with some vegetal notes of artichoke and bison grass and something very mineral like graphite and cigarette ashes. It’s interesting enough but the harshness really turns me off. After reading the other reviews, if I hadn’t got it from such a reputable liquor store I would assume that someone had poured something else in the bottle. I look forward to letting my friends try it to get some different opinions.

This one kept changing throughout the two glasses I had. At first I got some bitter vegetal flavor, like a hoppy IPA, then it got fruity with sweet cantaloupe melon, peach and pear. Then some fresh sage and anise. By the end of the second glass it reminded me of an orange creamsicle. Really interesting, mysterious, and delicious Mezcal.

Lot YJ05-17. I found this pretty unpleasant. Rubbing alcohol. White sugar, bitter gourd, lemon pith, sunflower seeds. Sour, bitter, and chemical.

Didn’t get the lot number. Very smoky with some caramel and clove. A long smoky finish. A bit one dimensional. Probably a decent mixer.

Lot 32. I almost didn’t try this one because I didn’t really like the other offerings that I tried from this producer, but the bartender insisted it was her favorite so I gave it a shot. I was very pleasantly surprised! Reading the other review on here I wonder if this was just a lucky batch? It was soft and creamy with some menthol, thyme, wet earth, tobacco leaf, it had a long complex finish that kind of reminded me of the sea breeze. I really liked this one!

MKU078. Light and fresh. Pine forest, rose water, white pepper, with a sweet vanilla milkshake finish. A bit thin and watery.