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Review · · by The Editors
Burrito Fiestero Lamparillo
Lamparillo at 50% – another Durango vocabulary agave, and one of the more distinctive in the range
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Burrito Fiestero Mezcal
- Maestro: Juan Manuel Conde
- Region: San Nicolas, Durango
- Agave: Lamparillo
- ABV: 50%
- Price: $65 ($)
Verdict
Lamparillo reads as genuinely distinct from verde and cenizo – not a repeat with a different label, an actual separate agave. Burrito Fiestero is the producer doing the most Durango category-vocabulary work in the state, and lamparillo is another release that pays the work off. Buy it; Burrito Fiestero's range rewards drinking several at once.
Lamparillo is a category worth learning alongside the range's other Durango vocabulary
Tasting notes
Nose: Warm earth, then dry herb, pine
Palate: Lean and structural at 50%. Lamparillo is among the more distinctive Durango agaves – a specific northern profile that reads cleanly when rendered at this proof, with a mineral-herb register that distinguishes it from the verde and cenizo siblings in the range
Finish: Cooling, drying, with a slow chalky fade – very long
The bottom line
Track Burrito Fiestero's range for breadth