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Review · · by The Editors

Por Lo Bueno Cuixe

Clean cuishe at 47%. No drama, real work

Score: 4.0/5 agaves

Por Lo Bueno Cuixe bottle
  • Producer: Por Lo Bueno Mezcal
  • Maestro: Clemente Martinez
  • Region: San Dionisio Ocotepec, Oaxaca
  • Agave: Cuishe
  • ABV: 47%
  • Price: $65 ($$)

Verdict

Por Lo Bueno's cuishe is the brand's working cuishe, competent across the board, nothing that makes you recoil, nothing that makes you reach. The producer's cirial is the memorable bottle; the cuishe is the daily. Fair price and honest execution. We'd place it just below Banhez's karwinskii work for value.

Entry-tier karwinskii done without an entry-tier attitude

Tasting notes

Nose: Apple skin, wet flint, faint vanilla

Palate: Mineral and dry, 47% is the minimum a cuishe should hold and this one holds it cleanly. Apple-and-stone signature through the middle. Less ambition than the Por Lo Bueno cirial, still honest work

Finish: Stony, clean

The bottom line

Buy it as a daily karwinskii. Keep the cirial for Sundays

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