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Tehuana Joven
Las Margaritas joven – terroir better than the proof allows
Score: 3.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Tehuana Mezcal
- Maestro: Petronilo Rosario Altamirano
- Region: Las Margaritas, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 40%
- Price: $40 ($)
Verdict
The Las Margaritas / San Pedro Totolapam terroir is one of Oaxaca's more interesting under-explored zones – jungle-adjacent, high-mineral, specific. Tehuana's joven hints at it without delivering, because 40% can't carry what the ground gives. Reach for Mezcal Koch or Real Minero's Chichicapa bottles when you want this kind of terroir with enough proof to hear it.
Las Margaritas deserves a higher-proof ambassador
Tasting notes
Nose: Green agave, light smoke, a mineral top note, a trace of fruit
Palate: 40% is the bottle's ceiling – Petronilo Rosario Altamirano's work in the San Pedro Totolapam jungle shows in the vegetal-chalky signature, but the proof keeps the architecture from committing
Finish: Short-medium, clean, vegetal
The bottom line
A pass. Terroir is there; proof isn't