Reviews / Cuentacuentos Coyote Ancestral
Review · · by The Editors
Cuentacuentos Coyote Ancestral
Coyote agave from Sola de Vega, in clay
Score: 3.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Cuentacuentos
- Maestro: Ángel Cruz Calvo, Ángel Cruz Robles
- Region: Sola de Vega, Oaxaca
- Agave: Coyote
- ABV: 45.6%
- Price: $70 ($$)
Verdict
Cuentacuentos continues proving that single-maestro releases beat house-style branding, and this Sola de Vega coyote is why. Ángel Cruz Calvo and his son work with a rare americana subspecies and the result is savory, textured, and uncommon on American shelves. Buy if Lalocura's pricing keeps you out of the arroqueño conversation – this is the adjacent play.
A coyote that wears its clay pot on its tongue
Tasting notes
Nose: Wet stone, then green plum, cooked yam, a dusty floral note
Palate: Coyote is the rarer americana cousin and it shows here – savory and faintly vegetal at 45.6%, with the ancestral clay-pot distillation adding an earthy round-off
Finish: Dry, mineral – long
The bottom line
Track it if you can – coyote bottles this good are scarce