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- Raided Score: 81
- Publication: Tequila Raiders
- Excerpt: Confectioners sugar, pepper, sulfur, ammonia, brine, and light rubber. Powerful and savory in a very chemical forward manner. Delicious and savory. Not too overpowering, but a really powerful set of notes.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: Distiller
- Excerpt: The mezcal is clean and crisp with dried herbs and a touch more smoke than the nose, but still not too strong. The finish is a little bitter with a touch of earth left behind.
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- Raided Score: 81
- Publication: Drink Hacker
- Excerpt: A quiet spirit, it offers distinctly floral perfume notes on the nose, then some fruit on the palate — pomelos and peaches, perhaps? A bit rocky on the finish, as some medicinal notes emerge. Curious stuff.
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Intro:
Alipús is a series made from contracted mezcales, purchased and marketed by the Danzantes group in Oaxaca, and imported into California by Craft Distillers. Each label corresponds to a specific village where the producer is located. All of them are made entirely from Espadin agave (with the exception of the San Andres that has a smidge of something else thrown in during fermentation). - KLWines. I've had several Alipus varietals before, and all have been fine to great, so I'm looking forward to trying one more. Here we go.
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Nose:
So very sweet in a very pleasant way. Honey, vanilla bean, confectioners sugar. Really faint on the agave stank front - not a lot of earth or mineral or ammonia at all. Just a sweet, buttery nose.
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Taste:
Really different from the nose. Confectioners sugar, pepper, sulfur, ammonia, brine, and light rubber. Powerful and savory in a very chemical forward manner.
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Finish:
Medium in length - lots of plastic, copper, ash and earth.
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Overall:
Delicious and savory. Not too overpowering, but a really powerful set of notes.
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Score:
6
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