Reviews / Salvación Pechuga
Review · · by The Editors
Salvación Pechuga
Pechuga at 45 – standard issue
Score: 3.0/5 agaves
- 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.