Salvadores Destilado con Hierba Santa

Verdict

Most pechugas reach for fruit or poultry; running espadín over hierba santa instead pushes the whole thing herbal and savory. Flavio Pérez Méndez keeps the anise-green note balanced against the agave rather than letting it take over. It is one of the more original distilled-with bottles around. Buy it if your pechuga shelf has gone predictable and you want a green one.

Tasting notes

Nose: Anise, green herb, baked agave, lime leaf, a faint pepper

Palate: Savory and herbal at 47.8%. Hierba santa lends a sarsaparilla-anise green note woven through the espadín, more savory than sweet

Finish: Long, herbal, cooling

The bottom line

Buy it for an herbal twist on pechuga