Reviews / Pasión Ancestral Ensamble Tradicional
Review · · by The Editors
Pasión Ancestral Ensamble Tradicional
The house's traditional ensamble – clay-still, committed, composed
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Pasión Ancestral
- Maestro: Alexis Canales Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Americana, Horrida, Kerchovei, Megalodonta, Seemanniana, Titanota
- ABV: 52%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
The tradicional in the name is doing work – this is Pasión Ancestral making the baseline argument for ancestral-still ensamble without leaning on a specific rare agave to sell the bottle. At 52% and in clay, the structure is all there. Reach for it as a working reference for what ancestral ensamble can be when the producer isn't trying to impress.
An ancestral ensamble that argues for the form by making the form disappear
Tasting notes
Nose: Cooked agave, then wet stone, green herb, a mineral top
Palate: 52% ensamble of unspecified but legibly Oaxacan agaves, with the ancestral distillation producing the characteristic clay-still roughness under a cleanly layered structure
Finish: Complex, warming – very long
The bottom line
Buy. A reference-grade ancestral ensamble without the rare-agave price
Where to buy online
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