Brilliant effort in experimentation! Too sour for me personally.
Nose: Vanilla, cooked agave, light bourbon notes and Cinnamon Flavor: oak, Hint of bourbon, black pepper, nutmeg, sweetness of cooked agave. Finish: medium to long finish with black pepper spice all the way
Cooked agave, sweetness, hay, yams. Palate: agave, spices, salt, lime, grass, mild alcohol, pepper. Finish long with spicy agave.
Aroma: cooked agave, sweetness, hay, yams. Palate: agave, spices, salt, lime, grass, jalapeño, mild alcohol, pepper. Finish long with spicy agave and light jalapeño,.
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My favorite most inexpensive sipping blanco
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Light golden color. Thin legs that move down fairly quickly. Cooked agave and some sort of baking spices and maybe hay on the nose. Tastes of sweet cooked agave and vanilla with a notable alcohol gum numbness that’s not unwelcome. Medium finish with some more ethanol heat and the only real place I detected any oak. Good sipper from a great distillery!