Reviews / Real Minero Tripon
Review · · by The Editors
Real Minero Tripon
Single-tripon at 48% – a nutty, vegetal outlier bottled clearly
Score: 4.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Real Minero
- Maestro: Edgar Angeles, Lorenzo Angeles
- Region: Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Tripon
- ABV: 48%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Tripon is uncommon as a single bottling because the agave's character doesn't flatter the usual sipping vocabulary. Edgar and Lorenzo Ángeles don't flatter it; they render it. The nutty-oily-vegetal profile at 48% reads as a complete agave portrait rather than a curiosity. This is the Real Minero bottle that expands your map of what mezcal can taste like. Cuentacuentos has tried tripon; Real Minero does it better.
Tripon tastes like no other agave – and Real Minero proves it
Tasting notes
Nose: Toasted walnut, cooked agave, wet stone, green herb
Palate: Coating and nutty at 48%, tripon presenting a signature that almost nothing else in the category can imitate – vegetal in an oily-savory way, never sweet. Clay pot gives it weight
Finish: Nutty, mineral – long
The bottom line
Buy it for what it teaches
Where to buy online
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