Reviews / Real Minero Becuela
Review · · by The Editors
Real Minero Becuela
Thirty-year marmorata at 48.2%, the rarest karwinskii-adjacent bottle most of us will ever taste
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Real Minero
- Maestro: Edgar Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Becuela
- ABV: 48.2%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Real Minero dropped the word 'mezcal' from its label before the CRM could tell it what ancestral means; the liquid is the argument. Thirty years of plant age is not a marketing number – it's in the glass, in the weight, in the saline finish. This is the Real Minero bottle that converts skeptics. Pour it blind next to a Jolgorio karwinskii; the Real Minero is the one with more to say.
Becuela doesn't taste like anything else in the category
Tasting notes
Nose: Wet shale, then green olive, cooked agave
Palate: Concentrated and saline at 48.2%, the marmorata pushing a mineral-and-marine signature that no other maguey does this clearly. Thirty years of plant patience, rendered in clay
Finish: Drying, almost oceanic – very long
The bottom line
If it's on the shelf, take it. There will not be a lot of it
Where to buy online
We found this bottle at 1 US retailer. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.