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Review · · by The Editors
Cómplice Cuishe
Santa Maria Albarradas cuishe at real proof
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Cómplice Mezcal
- Maestro: Epigmenio Martínez Pérez
- Region: Santa Maria Albarradas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Cuishe
- ABV: 49.5%
- Price: $60 ($$)
Verdict
Cómplice's Santa Maria Albarradas releases are the quiet win in this catalog. This cuishe drinks lean and tall – closer to what Mezcalosfera offers at twice the shelf mystique. Hunt it if you've been burned by karwinskii bottles that landed under 46% and came back sweet. Proof and place both honored here.
The cuishe behaves like karwinskii should when no one rounds it off
Tasting notes
Nose: Wet granite with roasted pineapple, a menthol edge
Palate: Epigmenio Martínez Pérez leaves the karwinskii alone and it shows – 49.5% ABV lets the cuishe's piney, bone-dry spine come forward without apology
Finish: Cool, minerally. Long
The bottom line
A karwinskii to stock when Real Minero is sold out