Reviews / Real Minero Arroqueno, Sierrudo, Tobala Capon, Barril, Coyota Capon, De Lumbre
Review · · by The Editors
Real Minero Arroqueno, Sierrudo, Tobala Capon, Barril, Coyota Capon, De Lumbre
Seven agaves is six too many – even Real Minero can't quite make this work
Score: 3.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Real Minero
- Maestro: Edgar Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Arroqueño, Barril, Coyota, Lumbre, Marteño, Sierrudo, Tobala
- ABV: 51.2%
- Price: $70 ($$)
Verdict
This is the rare Real Minero we'd counsel against. The ambition is clear, seven agaves from a single producer, distilled together, but the bottle doesn't cohere. Seven wild agaves in one bottle is composition-by-inventory rather than composition-by-design, and even Graciela Ángeles Carreño's discipline can't unify them. Instructive about the structural limits of the ensamble format: more agaves rarely produce more coherence. Consensus 3.0 is accurate; the producer's other bottles are all better.
Not every ensamble is a good ensamble, even from a great producer
Tasting notes
Nose: Genuinely muddled, you can pick out three or four distinct notes but they don't compose
Palate: Chaos at 51.2%. Too many conversations happening at once
Finish: Long but disorganized
The bottom line
A skip. Buy Real Minero Largo instead