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Mezcalosfera Espadin con Café
Espadín distilled with coffee – a morning-and-night bottle
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Mezcalosfera de Mezcaloteca
- Maestro: Margarito Cortés
- Region: Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 47.11%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
The coffee analog to the cacao release, and similarly successful – Margarito Cortés distills with Oaxacan coffee beans rather than flavoring after the fact, and the result drinks as a properly integrated bottle rather than a gimmick. Pour it alongside the cacao release for a flavored-distillation flight.
Coffee-distilled espadín lands like espresso after the kitchen closed
Tasting notes
Nose: Dark-roast coffee bean. Then cooked agave, toasted cane, faint smoke
Palate: 47.11% with the coffee integrated through distillation – the bean's character shows as a deep bitter spine rather than a flavor addition, and Cortés's espadín keeps its shape
Finish: Coffee-bitter, mineral. Long
The bottom line
Worth the hunt for the pechuga-adjacent flight
Where to buy online
We found this bottle at 2 US retailers. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.
- K&L Wines
- Old Town Tequila – $149.99