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Review · · by The Editors
Pasión Ancestral Espadin con Café
Coffee pechuga on a clay still – the additive and the still both speak
Score: 3.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Pasión Ancestral
- Maestro: Alexis Canales Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 51%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Coffee pechugas in clay are a different conversation than coffee pechugas in copper, the clay's mineral roughness gives the bean something to push against, and the integration reads more serious. Pasión Ancestral's version is the coffee-mezcal bottle to buy if you're going to buy one. Reach for it over the Palomo coffee pechuga or the Ojo de Dios abocado.
Ancestral distillation does for coffee pechuga what copper can't
Tasting notes
Nose: Cold brew, cooked agave, wet clay, a mineral top
Palate: 51% with coffee carried through the ancestral still, the clay texture grounds the coffee rather than letting it dominate, producing a more interesting coffee-mezcal than most
Finish: Coffee-leaning, warming, long
The bottom line
Reach for it. The best coffee-mezcal in this batch