Macheé Espadin

Verdict

Machee's espadín is the tell on the producer, when the baseline bottle reads a tier up from the shelf's commercial espadín, the rest of the catalog usually earns its price too, and here that's the case. At 45.6% the bottle is honestly proofed, and the production discipline from the cuishe and amarillo bottlings shows up here. Think of it as Los Ocotales' espadín's cousin. Buy when you want the house baseline.

Tasting notes

Nose: Cooked agave, warm hay, orange peel, a clean smoke edge

Palate: At 45.6% the espadín carries the Machee house signature, cleaner and more mineral than the commercial espadín shelf, with the producer's discipline translating from the wild-agave work into the baseline bottle

Finish: Clean, faintly limestone – medium-long

The bottom line

A solid house espadín. Buy to orient before the wild bottles