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Mezcal Unión Uno
Mezcal Joven — Oaxaca, Mexico
Reviewed
June 19, 2017 (edited June 6, 2018)
I've been seeing a lot of hype around this beast (and I have to admit: the branding is on-point), but not a lot of substantive tasting notes. So, some thoughts: smell is clean, mineral, slightly earthy (is "clean earthiness" oxymoronic?), with a light vegetal smoke. Pepper, with some fruit--oranges, citrus, prickly pear--and almost some crisp vegetables. Faint cucumber and a clean sort-of jalapeno pepper flesh character. Taste starts sweet, with the heat growing to a kind of (again, jalapeno-like) spice, with a backbone of citrus zest, earth notes, and light, almost peat-reaky smoke. Pepper, slight char, grilled pineapple. Slight salinity. Earth and char on the finish, pepper pith. Again, take this with a grain of salt, as I'm a relative mezcal novice, but--for the price, which is amongst the lowest I've ever found for a true mezcal--this juice is genuinely tasty. I could sip this all day (the caveat, of course, being that even the producer reports variation of flavours between batches).
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Yup. Our sin taxes are high, but mezcal just generally seems to outpace other spirits in terms of price. Looking through a list of mezcals available in Alberta, and only two or three are consistently available for under $90.
$160??!! That's just plain obscene for the Chichicapa
@Pranay --afraid not. Del Maguey (when you can even find it up here) runs $180+, and I just can't justify that cost. All I know is that I enjoyed this stuff, but without a huge frame of reference.
Have you had the Del Maguey Chichicapa? Trying to see if this is better, similar, or worse than that---I kind of use that as a standard for really good mezcal relative to price ( $60)
Nice job, as usual!