Reviews / Cinco Sentidos Espadillón, De Horno y Espadín
Review · · by The Editors
Cinco Sentidos Espadillón, De Horno y Espadín
Espadillon (horno) + espadín ensamble at 49.7%. Specialty variants of the same agave family, rendered side by side
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: 5 Sentidos
- Maestro: Anatolio Ramirez
- Region: San Jose Rio Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: De Horno, Espadillon, Espadin
- ABV: 49.7%
- Price: $170 ($$)
Verdict
Espadillón is espadín with the weight turned up, a variant rarely bottled single-variety, let alone paired with its common sibling. 5 Sentidos bottling the two together is a category-vocabulary argument that the espadín family is broader than the commercial tier's one-variant-fits-all model. Buy it for the family argument; the bottle is good.
Horno is a Oaxaca cooking method worth learning
Tasting notes
Nose: Concentrated cooked agave, then warm stone, green herb, a faint smoke note and trace of dried hay
Palate: Dense at 49.7% – the horno (oven-cooked) treatment adds structure to the espadín base
Finish: Drying, mineral, with a slow smoke fade
The bottom line
Specialty-tier drinking