5 Sentidos Tobaziche from Tio Pedro was produced in the beautiful community of Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca.
About this destilado de agave
5 Sentidos Tobaziche from Tio Pedro was released as one of three special editions for Chicago’s West Lakeview Liquors. This ancestral spirit was distilled by Tio Pedro Hernandez Arellanes in Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca. Tio Pedro hand-mashed approximately 30 cooked Tobaziche hearts with a wooden mallet, before fermenting them with naturally occurring yeasts in a pine vat. The agave was then double distilled in small clay pots.
5 Sentidos
5 Sentidos is named after the five senses that their mezcaleros use to produce their agave spirits. The producers of this mezcal do not use any model machinery or tools, being guided only by their senses throughout the production process. The brand was launched by El Destilado restaurant in centro Oaxaca. The restaurant is known for it's creative menu, unique cocktails, and exception agave spirits. The brand is a curated tour of Mexico with a wide range of expressions that are made by some of the best mezcaleros in the region. Cinco Sentidos is uncertified mezcal and is labeled as "Destilado de Agave".
A note about the bottle shape: The short round bottles are the US release bottles. In other areas of distribution (e.g. Mexico, Canada, Japan) the bottles are the taller Bordelaise shape.
Learn more about 5 Sentidos:
- Cinco Sentidos and El Destilado on Mezcal Reviews
- Santa María Ixcatlán: Rawhide Fermentation with Amando Alvarez on Mezcal Reviews
- What's in A Name? on the K&L Wines Spirits Journal blog
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5 reviews2018 | Batch WLV03 from West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago
First tobaziche I’ve had.
Pungent, a bit gasoline-y on the nose.
Lots going on – standout is some vegetal bitterness like butter lettuce and grass. At 50% the alcohol content overwhelms a lot of the taste, but the herbal “funk” I enjoy from the A. Karwinskii varietels pervades. Lingering finish that my friend described as “sugar snap peas and dirt”, which sounds about right to me.
This is not one for the faint of heart.
2018 | Batch WLV03 from West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago
First tobaziche I’ve had.
Pungent, a bit gasoline-y on the nose.
Lots going on – standout is some vegetal bitterness like butter lettuce and grass. At 50% the alcohol content overwhelms a lot of the taste, but the herbal “funk” I enjoy from the A. Karwinskii varietels pervades. Lingering finish that my friend described as “sugar snap peas and dirt”, which sounds about right to me.
This is not one for th