Reviews / Wahaka Espadin Botaniko
Review · · by The Editors
Wahaka Espadin Botaniko
Botanical pechuga – more flavor description than distillation
Score: 3.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Wahaka Mezcal
- Maestro: Alberto Morales Mendez
- Region: San Dionisio Ocotepec, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 45%
- Price: $70 ($)
Verdict
Wahaka's Botaniko is a pechuga-format expression that uses herbs rather than a protein, and the result lands as more commercial than traditional – an espadín distillate with infused aromatics rather than a composed pechuga. At 45% it's proofed reasonably, but the botanical premise lands closer to a flavored spirit than a mezcal statement. Pass for Tosba's chicken pechuga.
Botanical pechuga is pechuga reaching for a gin drinker
Tasting notes
Nose: Green herbs, then cooked agave, a perfumed top note, faint smoke
Palate: Mid-weight at 45%, with the botanical infusion reading as a fragrance rather than a fully integrated pechuga run
Finish: Medium, herbal, clean
The bottom line
Competent botanical pechuga. Pechuga purists will pour something else
Where to buy online
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