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Alipus Santa Ana del Rio

  • Distiller:

    Hernandez Melchor

  • Bottler:

    Alipus

  • ABV:

    42%

  • Age:

    NA

  • Price:
    $$$$$
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Taste:

    Really different from the nose. Confectioners sugar, pepper, sulfur, ammonia, brine, and light rubber. Powerful and savory in a very chemical forward manner.

  • Finish:

    Medium in length - lots of plastic, copper, ash and earth.

  • Overall:

    Delicious and savory. Not too overpowering, but a really powerful set of notes.

  • Score:

    6

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