Dos Pasiones Cuishe

Verdict

What you hear is the agave itself – green-pepper brightness, wet-stone mineral mid-palate, drying herbal close. Dos Pasiones's proof discipline keeps each bottle on-category; cuishe at 46% is the karwinskii-family easy pairing at the proof where the agave shows. Buy it alongside the Dos Pasiones tepextate for the two-bottle flight into Santa Maria Albarradas production.

Tasting notes

Nose: Green pepper. Then wet stone, mineral damp, a faint floral high note, dry hay underneath

Palate: Lean at 46%. The Cuishe reads cleanly – the agave's vegetal-iron-tinged register doesn't need extra structural support, and the Martínez Pérez family's production gives it room to show without pushing

Finish: Cooling, with a slow green-herb fade. Long

The bottom line

Fine as a karwinskii introduction from a disciplined producer