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Review · · by The Editors
Cuish Cerrudo
Cerrudo at 50%, a rarer americana from Minas
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Cuish Mezcales
- Maestro: Rufino Felipe Martinez
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Sierrudo
- ABV: 50%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
The cerrudo subspecies of americana rarely gets its own bottle and Cuish's release makes the case for separating it. Rufino's clay work at 50% gives the agave gravity without pretension. Buy it alongside the Cuish arroqueño if you want to see how two americana expressions from the same maestro diverge. The catalog rewards the curious.
Cerrudo as a category in itself – the payoff for paying attention
Tasting notes
Nose: Cocoa, green tobacco, wet clay, dried fig
Palate: Cerrudo is a rarely-separated americana subspecies and Rufino Felipe Martinez works it at 50% – dark, earth-forward, with clay-pot distillation's round-off
Finish: Long, dry, faintly leathery
The bottom line
A rare-varietal release to track down – Rufino doesn't miss
Where to buy online
We found this bottle at 4 US retailers. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.