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Banhez Cuishe
Banhez's cuishe – the producer doing wild-agave work at cooperative prices
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Banhez Mezcal
- Region: Ejutla, Oaxaca
- Agave: Cuishe
- ABV: 47%
- Price: $55 ($$)
Verdict
A strong value cuishe. Banhez's cooperative model – producer-owned with the proceeds flowing back to the member palenques – delivers wild-agave work at prices that specialty-importer economics can't match. At 47% the cuishe's karwinskii register holds and the producer's collective discipline stays clean. Community consensus aligns. A sleeper value cuishe pick that demonstrates the cooperative model's upside.
Wild-agave Banhez remains the value-tier conversation
Tasting notes
Nose: Green pepper, wet stone, cooked agave, faint smoke
Palate: Clean and mineral at 47% – Banhez's cooperative discipline applied to a demanding agave
Finish: Drying, cooling – long
The bottom line
Quietly underpriced cuishe pick