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El Destilado Pizorra
Pizorra at 48.2%. A rarely-bottled agave variety that earns the vocabulary lesson
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: El Destilado
- Maestro: Delfino Tobón Mejia
- Region: San Pablo Ameyaltepec, Puebla
- Agave: Pizorra
- ABV: 48.2%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Pizorra rarely gets bottled single-variety – El Destilado is one of the few producers making the variant legible in glass. The wildflower-mineral register the agave develops is specific enough that drinking the bottle is itself a vocabulary lesson. Buy it for the category-broadening argument; El Destilado's reference pattern keeps showing up across the range.
Pizorra is a category vocabulary word, and this bottle teaches it
Tasting notes
Nose: Wildflower with dry herb, mineral damp, a faint cooling-herb high note
Palate: Aromatic at 48.2%. Pizorra's specific profile, drier than tobalá, more aromatic than cuishe, with a wildflower-earth register all its own – is legible here in ways most producers couldn't draw out
Finish: Unending. Drying, cooling, stone, with a slow earth fade
The bottom line
A bottle that broadens what mezcal can mean for collectors