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Puntiagudo Arroqueno + Tepextate

Onofre Ortiz's arroqueño-tepextate – weight meets patience

Score: 4.5/5 agaves

Puntiagudo Arroqueno + Tepextate bottle
  • Producer: Puntiagudo
  • Maestro: Onofre Ortiz
  • Region: Miahuatlán, Oaxaca
  • Agave: Arroqueño, Tepextate
  • ABV: 48.4%
  • Price: $70 ($$)

Verdict

Puntiagudo operates as a bottler curating individual maestro-led lots, and the arroqueño-tepextate from Onofre Ortiz is the catalog's gravity bottle. The arroqueño's sweet weight and the tepextate's green mineral structure should fight each other; Ortiz lets them cooperate instead. Track it alongside Real Minero's arroqueño work.

Arroqueño and tepextate together is a gravity experiment that Ortiz wins

Tasting notes

Nose: Roasted arroqueño sweetness with wet granite

Palate: Massive but controlled. Arroqueño brings the weight, tepextate brings the green-mineral spine. 48.4% proof is calibrated to let both magueys speak without either dominating. Onofre Ortiz's hand is everywhere and nowhere

Finish: Layered, cooling – very long

The bottom line

Grab it when you find it. Onofre Ortiz is the name on the bottle for a reason

Where to buy online

We found this bottle at 2 US retailers. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.

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