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Review · · by The Editors
Pasión Ancestral Espadin
Clay-still espadín – the category's baseline rendered the old way
Score: 3.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Pasión Ancestral
- Maestro: Alexis Canales Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 50%
- Price: $65 ($)
Verdict
Pasión Ancestral's entry espadín is a useful technique-study bottle – same species everyone else ships, distilled using a method most producers abandoned decades ago. The result is legibly espadín with a clay signature on top. Reach for it after a copper-still espadín to hear what the still does to the liquid.
Clay-still espadín is what espadín used to taste like
Tasting notes
Nose: Wet stone over cooked agave – clay, light smoke, mineral top
Palate: 50% of espadín distilled in clay rather than copper – the texture is rougher, the smoke reads more primitive, and the agave sweetness is preserved under a chalky crust
Finish: Minerally, warming – long
The bottom line
Reach for it as a technique study. Copper espadín for daily drinking