This isn't the sanitized kind of top shelf mezcal like certain DM offerings (which I also love), this is high grade Oaxacan white lightning. It's hot and somewhat blurry in its evolution. That said, it grows on you with the evolution from the yellow-green sweet nose (banana bubblegum in almost a toluene enriched race fuel way) to the dusty baked earth note hiding under the soft green grassy finish. I always find I want another taste even after being burned by the heat. Distilled by a great man, Aquilino García López, rest his gifted soul. Lot A-18-C-18 Distilled Sept. 2018