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Besos de Angelica Cuishe

Chichicapa cuishe at 45%. A smaller producer doing wild-agave work at a sensible price tier

Score: 3.5/5 agaves

Besos de Angelica Cuishe bottle
  • Producer: Besos de Angelica Mezcal
  • Maestro: Angelica Garcia Vazquez
  • Region: San Baltazar Chichicapam, Oaxaca
  • Agave: Cuishe
  • ABV: 45%
  • Price: $50 ($$)

Verdict

Besos de Angelica is the small-producer label where value and quality line up closely – no brand markup, no small-import premium, just the producer's discipline showing. Chichicapam is a village that gets less marketing spend than it deserves; buy the cuishe to support a pricing anomaly that rewards the drinker for once.

Smaller producers often deliver wild-agave value where the marquee brands have pushed past reasonable pricing

Tasting notes

Nose: Green pepper, then wet stone, mineral damp, faint smoke, dry hay and a trace of cooling herb

Palate: Clean and limestone at 45%. San Baltazar Chichicapam's village profile – slightly more iron-tinged than neighboring villages, cleaner than Matatlán – comes through unmistakably

Finish: Drying, cooling, with a slow stone fade

The bottom line

Better than the price suggests cuishe pick