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Agua del Sol Jabali Puntas
Familia Monterrosa's jabalí puntas – the first-cut concentrate at its most electric
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Agua del Sol
- Maestro: Familia Monterrosa
- Region: Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca
- Agave: Jabali
- Price: $70 ($$)
Verdict
Three consensus reviews at 5.0 almost always signals a bottle worth paying attention to, and Agua del Sol's jabalí puntas is one of the rarer releases where the superlatives are earned. Compared with Real Minero's jabalí or the straight 5 Sentidos Alberto Martinez jabalí, this reads fuller, hotter, more concentrated. Hunt it – availability is effectively random and the bottle is a conversation when you find it.
Jabalí puntas is the category's loudest possible argument, whispered through the nose
Tasting notes
Nose: Tropical fruit, cooked agave concentrate, green pepper, faint petrol
Palate: Puntas (the 'heads' of the distillation, highest in alcohol and most aromatic) on an agave as difficult as jabalí is the category at its most assertive – dense, loud, and technically impressive work from Familia Monterrosa
Finish: Warming, intensely perfumed. Very long
The bottom line
Worth the chase. A reference puntas release on one of mezcal's hardest agaves