From easy-to-sip offerings, to premium bottles that deserve a place on your shelf, these are the best mezcals we’ve tasted this year. RSRecommends
When we said that Espadín agave can be used for premium mezcals, we were talking about bottles like this Del Maguey Chichicapa. It’s extremely soft on the palate, leading with sweetness and citrus that’s followed by a rich, smokey finish. It’s one of the best mezcals for both cocktails and sipping neat, making it a good standalone mezcal in any home bar.
Flavor-wise, the mezcal is at once sweet and smokey, and incredibly aromatic to sip. There’s just enough bite to make things interesting, with hints of mesquite and wood mixing with ripe fruit, but everything comes together in a silky smooth finish. The two taste quite different too, with liquor labeled as mezcal boasting a much more rich, smokey flavor compared to tequila, which gets its sweetness from the Blue Weber agave.
The piñas are roasted for four to six days, then put into a circular stone pit and crushed using a solar-powered stone wheel called a thona. Though traditionally the tahona was pulled by a horse or donkey, that would walk in circles while leading the one-ton wheel around the pit; El Silencio’s efforts to improve sustainability has replaced the animals with solar power, creating a more productive and eco-friendly way to make mezcal.
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