Movie star spirits don’t get a lot cooler than final yr’s launch of Dos Hombres, which was a collaboration between Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, stars of one of many coolest TV exhibits ever, Breaking Dangerous. Including to the road cred, it wasn’t a boring tequila or a whiskey however a mezcal, which is arguably the good spirits class this facet of snake wine.
Made out of comparatively youthful 6 yr outdated espadin agave in Oaxaca’s San Luis del Rio area, the product is historically produced utilizing a tahona and wood fermentation vats. We lastly tracked down a bottle to strive, so right here goes.
This seems to be a reasonably basic and unsurprising expression of espadin mezcal, loads smoky up high — principally wooden hearth coals this day out — with substantial notes of overripe fruit giving it a sticky-sweet high quality. As is usually the case, the smokiness serves to mood the fruitiness, calming the notes of baked apple and lemon curd with some wanted saline and savory notes. The palate turns the components round: First fruity sweetness, then a lightweight smokiness so as to add nuance. Hearty however by no means overwhelming, with a contact of beef tallow within the combine, the physique finally develops a fiery, cinnamon-laced high quality that takes a gradual fade into notes of charcoal and a few petrol-laced tar. The fruit fades alongside the end, which takes its time to seek out its method out, a lingering aftertaste of black pepper and freshly turned earth not essentially the most instantly partaking, however nothing to complain an excessive amount of about both.
84 proof. NOM O637-X.
B+ / $65 / doshombres.com [BUY IT NOW FROM DRIZLY]
Dos Hombres Espadin Mezcal
$65
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