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Review · · by The Editors
Riquezas de Oaxaca Espadin
Enrique Hernández's espadín – steady but soft-spoken
Score: 3.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Riquezas de Oaxaca Mezcal
- Maestro: Enrique Hernández Zenea
- Region: Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 44%
- Price: $40 ($)
Verdict
Riquezas de Oaxaca is well-made and unambitious – a quiet espadín that does every textbook thing and no memorable one. Competes with the Banhez single-village bottlings without clearly beating any of them. Consensus 3.5 is a shade high; we score it 3.0. Inoffensive, which is itself a small offense at this price.
A bottle designed not to alarm you
Tasting notes
Nose: Cooked agave, clean smoke, mild green herb
Palate: 44% sits right on the line; the espadín sweetness is present, the smoke is managed, nothing pushes. Middle-of-the-road in the best and also the most limiting sense
Finish: Clean, gentle. Stays medium
The bottom line
Pass in favor of Banhez Ensamble or any mezcal under the Nuestra Soledad label