Reviews / La Higuera Cucharilla
Review · · by The Editors
La Higuera Cucharilla
Cucharilla – a rare, non-agave desert succulent, distilled
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: La Higuera
- Region: Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
- ABV: 48.2%
- Price: $150 ($$)
Verdict
La Higuera is one of the more adventurous small producers working the edges of the category, and cucharilla is a genuinely rare commercial bottling. The result reads half-sotol, half-mezcal, drier and more mineral than Dasylirion's usual Chihuahua context, and more structured than most Miahuatlán wild agaves. Track it; it's the kind of bottle that shifts your category map.
A bridge bottle between mezcal and sotol vocabularies
Tasting notes
Nose: Desert herb, then cool stone, green fig, faint smoke
Palate: 48.2% – cucharilla (Dasylirion, sotol's family) distilled in a Miahuatlán-adjacent context drinks like a crossover between mezcal and sotol; at 48.2% the Dasylirion character arrives cleanly
Finish: Long, dry, mineral
The bottom line
A buy. A rare dasylirion worth the education
Where to buy online
We found this bottle at 2 US retailers. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.
- Total Wine – $139.99
- Old Town Tequila – $154.99