Reviews / Yotobi Sandía
Review · · by The Editors
Yotobi Sandía
Watermelon mezcal is a product brief, not a spirit
Score: 2.0/5 agaves
- Producer: Yotobi Mezcal
- Maestro: Guillermo Fabián, Magdaleno Santiago
- Region: San Martín Lachilá, Oaxaca
- Agave: Espadin
- ABV: 42%
- Price: $70 ($$)
Verdict
Yotobi Sandía is the weakest of the flavored Yotobi lineup and consensus 2.5 is charitable. The base is soft, the flavoring is loud, and the sum is a sweet alcoholic beverage that happens to be labelled mezcal. Skip it. If you want watermelon in a cocktail, muddle fresh watermelon into anything else.
Watermelon is the wrong fruit to hide a spirit behind
Tasting notes
Nose: Watermelon candy up front. Faint smoke, confected sweetness underneath
Palate: Thin and sugary, the watermelon flavoring reading as syrup and the base spirit barely present. Reads closer to a cooler than a mezcal
Finish: Cloyingly sweet – short
The bottom line
A skip. Watermelon deserves a better vessel
Where to buy online
We found this bottle at 1 US retailer. Prices and stock vary – click through to check.
- The Epicurean Trader – $54