Maguey Melate Palmilla

Item: Maguey Melate Palmilla
Rating: 3.5
Author: The Editors

Sonoran palmilla sotol at 46.3%. Dasylirion with a hundred-year plant age

Score: 3.5/5 agaves

Producer: Maguey Melate
Region: Bacanora, Sonora
ABV: 46.3%
Price: $70 ($)

Verdict

Palmilla plants can reportedly live a century and Osman Sinohe Chacon Ezrre distills them with the patience the botany demands – hunt this for the sotol-adjacent education. Closer to what Derrumbes and Cuentacuentos do with their Chihuahua sotol releases than most dasylirion bottles. A category specialist's bottle; no

Palmilla – Sonoran dasylirion from plants older than most states

Tasting notes

Nose: Dry desert, green resin, warm stone, faint lime

Palate: Steel still at 46.3% – Osman Sinohe Chacon Ezrre distills palmilla (Sonora sotol/dasylirion) from ancient wild plants. The agave-like dasylirion reads drier and more herbal than any agave cousin

Finish: Dry, resinous – long

The bottom line

Ancient-plant sotol. Hunt for the education