Xicaru Reposado has notes of vanilla and smoke. It gets its golden straw color from the barrel aging that takes place after distillation.
About this mezcal
Xicaru Reposado is made with agave Espadin in Santiago Matatlan. Mezcalero Fernando Santibanez uses traditional methods to produce this mezcal, which is aged for 2-4 months in American Oak barrels before being bottled.
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Xicaru Mezcal
Xicaru is the Zapotec word for beautiful. This name reflects mezcalero Fernando Santibañez’s desire to share his artistic creations. Using his grandmother’s recipe, Fernando makes small batches of Xicaru Mezcal at his palenque in Matatlán, Oaxaca. Its natural smoky flavor is derived by cooking the agave in a conical stone oven on mesquite and ocote, woods native to Oaxaca. The cooked agave is tahona mashed and naturally fermented in an open pine vat. Following fermentation, it is double distilled in a copper alembic, filtered and precisely blended. Fernando is extremely proud to be able share his family’s mezcal with you.
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Cy Bister
26 reviewsBottle #19-5, 414. Vaguely sweet and lightly smoky on the nose. Interesting and different sweetness on the palate. Instead of vanilla or jackfruit/melon notes, this one has a sweet cream butter, almost honeysuckle sweetness and then ends with an understated smoke and distinctly tequila-ish finish. There’s a little bit of pepper punch there, but not much. This stuff is very, very mild. It’s good, but it ventures a little too far into reposado tequila qualities for my taste and I likely wont be purchasing it again. But I can certainly see how other folks might really like this corner of the mezcal world. I think it would benefit from a higher ABV, regardless.
Bottle #19-5, 414. Vaguely sweet and lightly smoky on the nose. Interesting and different sweetness on the palate. Instead of vanilla or jackfruit/melon notes, this one has a sweet cream butter, almost honeysuckle sweetness and then ends with an understated smoke and distinctly tequila-ish finish. There’s a little bit of pepper punch there, but not much. This stuff is very, very mild. It’s good, but it ventures a little too far into reposado tequila qualities for my taste and I likel
NickSanford
23 reviewsButterscotch flavors with a very nice touch of smoke, but extremely smooth. One of my favorite mixers that you can actually drink on the rocks if you want to.
Icypu
9 reviewsWeak bodied, acidic, unremarkable first and last flavors. Perhaps good as a mixer.
Stockjock
1 reviewSmoky, well-balanced, just a hint of honey (but does not actually contain honey, obviously), very little aftertaste or burn. Well-balanced. A solid Mezcal at a reasonable price.