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Cinco Elementos Espadin

San Lorenzo Albarradas espadín at 48% – Cinco Elementos' reference work

Score: 4.5/5 agaves

Cinco Elementos Espadin bottle
  • Producer: Cinco Elementos Mezcal (M5CE)
  • Maestro: Faustina Garcia, Luiz Martinez
  • Region: San Lorenzo Albarradas, Oaxaca
  • Agave: Espadin
  • ABV: 48%
  • Price: $70 ($)

Verdict

A strong Cinco Elementos. San Lorenzo Albarradas is a category-vocabulary village – less distributed than Matatlán or San Luis del Rio, but with its own regional production traditions that reward attention. Cinco Elementos's espadín at 48% delivers the village's disciplined, mineral-forward signature cleanly. The producer's wild-agave range is strong, and the village espadín is the entry that argues for the whole line. Community average matches. Track it down.

San Lorenzo Albarradas is a category vocabulary village

Tasting notes

Nose: Cooked agave with warm stone underneath, green herb, mineral

Palate: Village production rigor; dense and structural at 48%

Finish: Very long, drying, limestone

The bottom line

Worth chasing

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