Vecindad Lechuguilla

Verdict

Manuel Salcedo's lechuguilla is the bottle Vecindad uses to make the case for Mascota, the Jalisco highland town producing some of the state's more aromatic wild work. At 50% the plant's herbal character reads fully, and the mountain terroir gives it a cleaner back palate than the coastal bottlings. We score it 3.5. Track it.

Tasting notes

Nose: Green herbs, tropical fruit, wet leaves, mineral

Palate: With the lechuguilla's characteristic herbal lift intact and the Mascota terroir reading distinct from the Cabo Corrientes bottlings; lean and aromatic at 50%

Finish: Cooling, slate-tinged

The bottom line

Worth tracking. Highland Jalisco lechuguilla with structure