NETA Tepextate, Cucharillo, Madrecuixe, Espadín, Bicuixe, and Tobalá

Item: NETA Tepextate, Cucharillo, Madrecuixe, Espadín, Bicuixe, and Tobalá
Rating: 3.5
Author: The Editors

Six agaves in one bottle – ambitious and only partly coherent

Score: 3.5/5 agaves

Producer: Agave Mixtape, NETA
Maestro: Celedonio Aquino Gutíerrez
Region: Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
Agave: Bicuishe, Espadin, Madrecuishe, Tepextate, Tobala
ABV: 47.6%
Price: $70 ($$)

Verdict

Six agaves in one bottle is a composition ceiling even NETA's blending discipline can't fully clear, the individual components all pass, the sum is crowded. A study bottle that teaches the structural limits of the ensamble format: past four agaves, someone gets crowded out, and no amount of producer discipline fixes that. Pass unless you're doing a structural comparison flight.

Six agaves asks too much of a single bottle

Tasting notes

Nose: Dense and layered, wildflower, green herb, dark honey, mineral

Palate: The agaves negotiate at 47.6%; a few win

Finish: Uneven, complex, long

The bottom line

A study bottle more than a drinking one