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Review · · by The Editors
Pasión Ancestral Barril-Marteño-Largo
Three karwinskii-adjacent agaves in one clay-still bottle
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Pasión Ancestral
- Maestro: Alexis Canales Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Barril, Largo, Marteño
- ABV: 51%
- Price: $70 ($$)
Verdict
Barril, largo, and marteño are all agaves that sit in the karwinskii-family zone of austere-mineral expression, and stacking them is a brave structural choice – you'd expect monotony, and instead the differences within the family come forward. Pasión Ancestral's ancestral distillation amplifies the argument. Reach for it as a karwinskii-family master class.
An ensamble of quiet agaves that together make more noise than any of them alone
Tasting notes
Nose: Wet stone, green herb, dark honey, saline
Palate: 51% ensamble with barril, largo, and marteño – all low-growing karwinskii and cousins, pulling the bottle toward a dry, mineral, austere register. Clay-still texture is audible
Finish: Mineral, dry, complex. Long
The bottom line
Buy for the karwinskii-family study, not as a first ensamble