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Review · · by The Editors
Salvadores Destilado con Tuna
Distilled with prickly pear – quieter than it reads on paper
Score: 3.5/5 agaves
- Producer: Salvadores Mezcal
- Maestro: Flavio Pérez Méndez
- Region: Tlacolula, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 49.8%
- Price: $65 ($)
Verdict
Distilled-with-tuna expressions skew sweet-and-obvious; Flavio Pérez Méndez's is restrained. The fruit is an accent, not a flag. No consensus score yet; our read is 3.5. A specialty pour for people who've exhausted the straight espadín lineup.
Prickly pear, not prickly-pear candy
Tasting notes
Nose: Faint red fruit with clean smoke
Palate: 49.8% holds the espadín; the tuna (prickly pear) reads as a red-fruit hint rather than a dominant flavor. Subtle and well-integrated
Finish: Long, warm, faintly floral
The bottom line
The pick for the "destilado con" flight, not as a daily pour