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Casamigos Mezcal Joven vs Dos Hombres Espadin

Two bottles that end up on the same shelf, tasted the same way on the same rubric. Scores, current average US prices, and the call.

Casamigos Mezcal JovenDos Hombres Espadin
Our score1.5/52.0/5
The public1.22.5
Price$55$47
ABV40%42%
AgaveEspadinEspadin
RegionSantiago Matatlán, OaxacaSan Luis del Rio, Oaxaca

The call

Dos Hombres Espadin scores higher and costs no more. Easy call.

Casamigos Mezcal Joven

Don't

Nose: Sweet – then thin, confected – a vanilla-forward base with barely any smoke, a faint cane-sugar note and something vaguely alcoholic underneath

Palate: Almost sugary, industrial, with a manufactured smoothness that plays as absence. 40% is the wrong proof for anything the agave might have wanted to say, and every production decision points toward drinkability-for-non-mezcal-drinkers rather than toward the spirit

Finish: Hot, sweet, gone in a way that almost feels engineered – short

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Dos Hombres Espadin

For the fans. Vida outperforms at two-thirds the price

Nose: Faint smoke, confected vanilla, alcoholic heat

Palate: Thin and sweet at 42% – built to hit a celebrity-brand price point without any production conviction

Finish: Slightly hot, short

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