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Salvación Pechuga

Pechuga at 45 – standard issue

Score: 3.0/5 agaves

Salvación Pechuga bottle
  • Producer: Salvacion Mezcal
  • Region: Oaxaca
  • Agave: Espadin
  • ABV: 45%
  • Price: $70 ($)

Verdict

Salvacion's pechuga is a catalog filler – the format done well enough to stay on the shelf, not well enough to remember. Sabelotodo's pechuga at full proof or Banhez's turkey pechuga are both more interesting conversations. No consensus; our read 3.0.

Pechuga without the kitchen legible is pechuga as category label

Tasting notes

Nose: A faint poultry with a muted spice

Palate: 45% is the lower edge of useful pechuga proof; the fruit-and-bird charge reads as diffuse rather than layered. Drinkable, not revealing

Finish: Warm, soft spice – medium

The bottom line

Pass unless the shelf is bare

Where to buy online

We found this bottle at 1 US retailer. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.

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