Leyendas Maguey Azul

Verdict

There's a small category of non-Jalisco tequilana bottlings that are trying to argue blue agave can say something outside Tequila, and this Michoacán entry is a decent if not emphatic member of that club. The proof is honest and the agave is recognizable, but the bottle doesn't quite escape the sense that you're drinking a tequila that went to a different school. Cuentacuentos' Michoacán work is louder on the same question.

Tasting notes

Nose: Cooked agave, then sweet pine, a faint saline note, green pepper

Palate: Cleaner than the tequila template suggests, at 46.1% the Michoacán terroir asserts itself through the familiar tequilana sweetness. Interesting as a conceptual exercise; it doesn't fully escape the Jalisco vocabulary

Finish: Medium, slightly sweet, clean

The bottom line

An interesting argument, incompletely made