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Review · · by The Editors
El Destilado Pichomel
Puebla marmorata – the bottle for people who already blew through their tepextate budget
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: El Destilado
- Maestro: Atelo Ramirez, Laura Arriaga
- Region: Reyes Metzontla, Puebla
- Agave: Pichomel
- ABV: 49.1%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Puebla marmorata reminds you tepextate isn't only Oaxaca's story. Atelo Ramirez and Laura Arriaga's pichomel is leaner and greener than anything from San Luis del Rio – closer in spirit to what Real Minero gets out of marmorata than to the commercial Gracias a Dios bottling.
Puebla marmorata reminds you tepextate isn't only Oaxaca's story
Tasting notes
Nose: Crushed tomato leaf, wet granite, white flowers
Palate: Pichomel is marmorata from Reyes Metzontla – wilder, leaner, drier than Oaxacan tepextate. The palate has the characteristic green-vegetable snap, held up by 49.1%, with a saline through-line that hits as Puebla rather than Oaxaca
Finish: Herbal, bone-dry – long
The bottom line
Track it – the Puebla angle is real