Reviews / Rey Campero Castilla
Review · · by The Editors
Rey Campero Castilla
Castilla is one of the less-discussed wild agaves. Rey Campero makes the case
Score: 4.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Rey Campero Mezcal
- Maestro: Romulo Sanchez Parada
- Region: Candelaria Yegole, Oaxaca
- Agave: Castilla
- ABV: 48%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Castilla doesn't appear on many menus, which makes Rey Campero's bottling more useful as a category lesson than as a daily drinker. A careful, honest expression of a rarely-bottled agave: herbal, mineral, lean in the way castilla sits in the karwinskii family. The Sánchez family's Candelaria Yegolé production at 48% gives the agave room to show without forcing it. Consensus 3.9 is fair. A bottle for drinkers building wild-agave vocabulary.
A vocabulary-expanding bottle
Tasting notes
Nose: Dried herb walks in first. Then green pepper, mineral damp, faint floral
Palate: Lean and aromatic. At 48%, castilla's herbal-iron-tinged profile presented with Rey Campero's characteristic precision
Finish: Cooling, drying
The bottom line
Interesting if you've worked through the common wild agaves