Reviews / Bozal Castilla
Review · · by The Editors
Bozal Castilla
Castilla from San Juan Bautista – Bozal's unusual-agave range, and a category-edge release worth learning
Score: 3.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Bozal Mezcal
- Maestro: Israel Palestino Vasquez
- Region: San Juan Bautista, Oaxaca
- Agave: Castilla
- ABV: 47.3%
- Price: $150 ($$)
Verdict
Bozal's whole value proposition is geographic breadth, palenques across Mexico, rare agaves, variable caliber. Castilla is exactly that model: not a bottle the category aims at, but a bottle you can't get anywhere else at this price. Buy it when you want the category-breadth lesson more than the a bottle the category aims at pour.
Castilla is a category word worth learning, and Bozal is the producer that teaches it
Tasting notes
Nose: Warm earth with cooked agave, faint mineral and a trace of dried fruit underneath
Palate: Dense at 47.3%. Castilla's savory undertone is legible without dominating, a competent rendering of a category-edge agave that few producers bottle
Finish: Drying, iron-tinged, with a slow earth fade
The bottom line
A respectable Bozal wild
Where to buy online
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