Leyendas Grandes Leyendas

Verdict

Grandes Leyendas is Leyendas' curator move, limited bottles from maestros over seventy, intended to make their work visible before the work disappears. It succeeds. At 47% the cupreata doesn't negotiate; it states what fifty years of palenque work tastes like. Think of it next to a Real Minero bottle: same reverence, same specificity, a similar argument for naming the hands.

Tasting notes

Nose: Warm stone fruit, honeyed cupreata

Palate: Dense and ceremonial, the 47% holds weight, and the Guerrero cupreata tilts toward brown-sugar sweetness before the mineral spine reasserts. The liquid reads like it's been lived with

Finish: Long, warm, faintly medicinal

The bottom line

A documentary project in liquid form. Buy when you see it

Where to buy online

We found this bottle at 3 US retailers. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.

• Old Town Tequila – $250
• K&L Wines
• Caskers – $351