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Salvación Tobala

Anonymous tobalá – the category's middle distance

Score: 3.0/5 agaves

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

Verdict

Salvacion's tobalá is a middle-tier bottle, proof adequate, agave legible, producer invisible. The category is crowded with better-told tobalás at similar money (Mal Bien, Bozal single-village, Banhez Tobalá). No consensus yet; our read 3.0.

Tobalá this anonymous is tobalá as commodity

Tasting notes

Nose: Honey, green melon, light stone, faint jasmine

Palate: 45% is adequate for tobalá but the lack of a named mezcalero shows, clean, standard, doing the textbook without adding to it

Finish: Floral, clean, medium

The bottom line

Pass. Banhez Tobalá is the same story with a person attached

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