Cinco Sentidos Bruto Reposado This is an offering from Cinco Sentidos, and a slightly unusual one as this will be my 2nd ever aged Mezcal. This one was made from A.Inaquidens agave, cooked in an earth oven for 6 days, Hand Crushed, and fermented in stone tubs with pulque. Filipino style stills and was then
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This is an offering from Independent Bottler Habitation Velier, and is an unaged rum from Reunion Islands. The esters count is between 225-500 gr/hlpa. This was bottled with no color added and was non-chill filtered. ABV: 61.1% Nose: Pungent and Aromatic. Cotton Candy Bubble Gum, Pineapples, Guava, Strawberries Palate: Medium oily mouthfeel. Warm, Heavy Bubble Gum funk, Over-ripe
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This is a 13 year old Ledaig offering bottled by Single Cask Nation. It was distilled in 2005 and bottled in 2018 after having been matured in a 2nd fill sherry cask. This was bottled at cask strength with no color added and was non-chill filtered. ABV: 57.1% Nose: Raspberry Jam, industrial smoke, light minerality, figs, brine,
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Eli’s Mezcal Room tasting I will be sharing an experience I got to do virtually via Eli’s Mezcal room based out of New York City. By coordinating with Dan who runs Eli’s Mezcal room we were able to get 6 samples of various Mezcals, all blind until the time which we tried them, wrote some
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7 Year I tried this blind, so keep that in mind while reading these notes. This is a 7ish year old WFP private barrel, bottled for a private group. ABV: 57% ABV Nose: Brown Sugar Bomb, Ethanol, oak spice, pepper, tobacco leaf, light funk. Palate: Medium oily mouthfeel. Warm, Pepper, Brown Sugar, Caramel, nice oak structure, slight funk,
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This is a bottling from Maguey Melate. This Arroqueno was aged for 12-15 years, cooked in an earth oven for 5 days, and fermented for 12-15 days. Let’s see how well it holds up Mezcalero: Semei Garcia Ramos Batch: SEM-ARR-001 ABV: 47.8% Nose: Aromatic, cotton candy, vanilla cream, cream cheese Palate: Medium mouthfeel. Warm, cream cheese, minerals, earthy, Bell Peppers,
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This is an offering from Distiller Worthy Park. This sherry cask edition was matured in ex-bourbon barrels for 4 years before being finished in a combination of PX and Oloroso sherry casks for another year before being bottled, and was aged 4 years tropically and 1 year in Europe. This was bottled with no color
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This is a bottling of the LROK from Hampden, this Single Cask was botled exclusively for the New York Market. This bottling was aged all 9 years in Jamaica, was distilled in a 100% Pot still, and has an ester count between 350-450 esters. This was bottled at cask strength with no color added, non
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This is a 5 Sentidos Tobala Side by Side x2 I will be doing, so let’s see how these all stack up! In the effort of saving space here if you wish for the information on all of these in terms of mashing, cooking etc feel free to ask! “Buffalo Trace Glencairn” 5 Sentidos Tobala
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This offering from 5 Sentidos is a 5 Maguey Ensemble made from 40% Bicuixe, 20 % Madrecuixe, 20% Verde, 10% Espadin, and 10% Azul. It was cooked in a Conical Earth Oven for 6 days, fermented with well water, fired with Guamuchill Mezquite Wood. It was Crushed with a large stone wheel “Tahona”, Fermented for
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