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Review · · by The Editors
El Silencio Umbra
Tobalá-espadín at 43% – commercial wild agave stripped of its reasons for being wild
Score: 2.5/5 agaves
- Producer: El Silencio Mezcal
- Region: Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin, Tobala
- ABV: 43%
- Price: $55 ($$)
Verdict
Clean production, uninterested in the wild agave's character, a bottle that mislabels itself by calling this wild-agave mezcal in any meaningful sense. Skip; if you want the same money spent on a bottle that actually cares about its wild-agave base, anything from Vago or Nuestra Soledad will do more work.
Commercial wild-agave is a contradiction that bottles like this keep confirming
Tasting notes
Nose: Wildflower. Then faint smoke, cooked agave, a trace of sour fruit
Palate: Thin. At 43%, tobalá's contribution stripped by proof and production. When a tobalá ensamble can't make the tobalá audible, the category label is doing the work the agave should be doing
Finish: With a faint floral fade and a muted vegetal tail. Short
The bottom line
A skip