La Luna Ponche Navideño

Verdict

Where La Herencia de Sánchez's ponche de frutas uses Candelaria Yegole espadín, La Luna's ponche navideño leans on Michoacán espadincillo and delivers a different holiday register, a little leaner, more green-herb under the fruit program. Buy for a Michoacán counterpoint to Oaxacan holiday pechugas. Neither is wrong; they're different conversations.

Tasting notes

Nose: Stewed fruit with warm spice, cooked agave

Palate: 48.51% – Isidro Perez Escot's ponche navideño uses the espadincillo as base rather than the bruto family; lighter than the jabalí pechuga above, with holiday-fruit aromatics foregrounded

Finish: Warm, spiced – long

The bottom line

Buy for Michoacán holiday sipping