Reviews / Lalocura Puntas de Espadin
Review · · by The Editors
Lalocura Puntas de Espadin
69% – the high-strength end-of-run cut, bottled as its own thing
Score: 3.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Agave Mixtape, Lalocura Mezcal
- Maestro: Eduardo "Lalo" Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 69%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Puntas (first-run high-strength cuts) are a specialist format. Lalocura's is technically impressive but difficult, at 69% the proof demands the drinker meet it on its own terms, and the concentration carries as focused ingredient rather than finished spirit. The clay-still texture keeps the bottle from being purely aggressive, but there's no way around the proof. Consensus 3.5 is fair, not everyone will love this, and that's part of the point of bottling puntas separately.
Puntas is a category test – can you drink the agave through the heat?
Tasting notes
Nose: Intense cooked agave, then hot clay, a sharp citrus-alcohol edge
Palate: Fierce. The structure is there but the proof demands focus. Not a casual pour
Finish: Warming, concentrated. Endless
The bottom line
For drinkers who've earned it. Not a first bottle