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Puntiagudo Arroqueno / Tobasiche
Rolando Angeles' arroqueño-tobaziche – cedar and roast
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Puntiagudo
- Maestro: Rolando Ángeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Arroqueño, Tobaziche
- ABV: 50.8%
- Price: $70 ($$)
Verdict
Rolando Angeles is one of the Puntiagudo catalog's most recognizable voices, and the arroqueño-tobaziche shows why, the producer composes ensambles like music, with one maguey as lead and the other as structure. At 50.8% the bottle commits to both, and the result has the cleanest two-agave ensamble shape on the US market short of Lalocura.
Two magueys stacked with purpose, not shuffled together
Tasting notes
Nose: Roasted arroqueño with dry leaves, stone
Palate: Heavy but taut, 50.8% giving both magueys full room. The arroqueño sweetness runs underneath the tobaziche's cedar-and-mineral structure. Rolando Angeles' composition is audible, two magueys stacked with purpose
Finish: Woody, sweet-to-stone. Long
The bottom line
Don't pass. Angeles composes, he doesn't blend