5 Sentidos Espadin - Berta Vasquez

Verdict

Consensus 5.0 is earned. Berta Vásquez's espadín for 5 Sentidos is one of the two or three bottles we'd point to as the sort of bottle the category aims at work in cultivated agave – Berta is one of the category's most-cited maestras, and her Chichicapa espadín at 46.3% rewrites assumptions about what espadín can do. The bottle's structural layering, saline mineral register, and sheer production discipline close the argument on whether a non-wild agave can earn a benchmark score. A reference bottle.

Tasting notes

Nose: Cooked agave, mineral damp, warm stone, citrus peel

Palate: Exceptional layering at 46.3% – Berta's cut comes through in every sip. The espadín performs at wild-agave caliber

Finish: Endless. Saline, drying, wet slate

The bottom line

A reference bottle. Scarce and essential