This review is just an impression of a small pour from a big Lamata tasting. No bottle info. Will update if I try again.

Review #116: cherry, mango, soft cheese, strawberry, raspberry.

Really delicious soft sweet fruits with a little lactic note.

This review is just an impression of a small pour from a big Lamata tasting. No bottle info. Will update if I try again.

Review #115: Gasoline, motor oil, tire rubber, pine, mint, paint.

The review below sounds amazing. Definitely sad I got nothing like it.

Review #114: On the nose is lime, dried herbs, fresh pine, a juicy red apple, sweet watermelon, grape candy, salty minerality, and some ash.
The palate has more watermelon, grape, and apple up front, they start as a fresh fruit but it turns more into a tart candy, then there’s some of that weird herbal medicinal taste like Jonny said, the finish has some dried rosemary, smoked jalapeño, and ashy smoke.

This is a great ensamble. It has a nice mix of fruits with a bit of herbal notes to keep it from being too sweet. I feel the tepextate plays a strong role here on the long and dry finish that I really enjoy from this. It has an easily noticeable evolution on the palate from the sweet and semi-tartness to the more bitter notes. It has such a clean freshness to it that ends in such a different direction that keeps this very interesting the whole time you drink it. I really just wish for a bit more intensity on the nose, it feels a bit hidden at times.

48.33% abv, lote 4, volume 1C

Review #113: the nose has vanilla, chlorine, cream, and mint.
The palate has green banana, lime, pineapple, cream, chlorine, pine, mint, green grass, honey, and the finish has lingering dry spicy wood, cinnamon, and herbal medicine.

This was fun to side by side with the Ixtero and Brocha. You can definitely pick out the more creamy sweetness from the Brocha and the more herbal and citrusy Ixtero. Unfortunately I find it to have the lesser qualities of each. The delicate notes from the Brocha somehow dominate the Ixtero on the nose along with its chemical off note. And the brashness of the Ixtero isn’t softened on the finish at all by the Brocha. It has a lot going for it from what I tried with the seperate agaves but it feels like a bit of a miss.

48% abv, lote 4, volume 3B

Review #112: The nose has cream, vanilla, sweet florals, sweet mint, sweet potato, and buttered bread.
The palate is very noticably thick and oily. It has cream, sweet potato, milk chocolate, mint, caramel, bit of butyric, vanilla, sweet florals, mint, honey, and chlorine.

Wow, I’ll start by saying that the palate is very cool. One of the most oily that I have had. It is what really kept me pulled in because the aromas and flavors were pretty delicate. It had this unique potato and bread thing going on that I really enjoyed, but it also is a bit simplistic in flavor in ways too. Either way, I still like the lighter stuff going on here alongside this thick creamy palate.

48.87% abv, Lote 2D, volume 2D

Review #111: The nose has lime, orange, passionfruit, and grassy.
The palate has lime, juicy orange, passionfruit, some cream at the start but then drying, pine, grass, and nearing the finish some ash, dry wood, cinnamon, and smoked herbs.

This is interesting with the transition from cream to drying. It has a nice citrus fruitiness to it with the cream but it then changes to the herbal side with the dry wood and smoked herbs. The smoke is really the only thing keeping this a bit brash for me, but otherwise it’s really fun stuff.

Review #110:

The nose has baby wipes, baby powder, light caramel, spoiled milk chocolate, butyric, mulch, vanilla, powdered sugar, carpet, white amber, and musk.
The palate has spoiled milk chocolate, malt balls, caramel, vanilla, brown sugar, smarties candy, chalk, and some soft melons.

I keep coming back to this hoping I would like it more, but I actually like it less each time. The weird old chocolate smell and taste is too much for me to enjoy much beyond that. If there were more of something else alongside it I would like this quite a bit more, but everything feels like it’s lacking and muted. It feels like it almost has something going for me but falls short. It is pretty easygoing and I can kind of appreciate the weird notes on this, but it’s not for me.

Lote TXI-18, 48% abv

Review #109: Nose is banana, raspberry, orange scented cleaning product, vanilla, light florals, rubber, wet stone, tobacco, asparagus, smoke, leather, herbal, and raisin. The palate is banana, orange, raspberry, tobacco, vanilla, grilled asparagus, smoke, some herbs, maybe fennel and basil.

I got to try this one as a fully blind sample. I found it to be quite a fruity expression of Tepextate and I certainly did not guess that as the blind, haha. It definitely changed my idea of what to expect with this agave. I’m a sucker for the banana flavors and the light herbs and vegetables surrounding the primary fruit notes are very pleasant. It doesn’t have the right potency for me to score higher but it’s flavors are still done well.

Batch PRES22, 48.9% abv

Review #108: Nose has pine, lemon, fresh paint, wet smoldering campfire, spicy smoked jalapeno, pickled onion, cucumber, celery, sage, parsley, and black pepper. The palate has lemon, lime, pine, smoked sage, jalapeno, black pepper, medicinal like an herbal amaro or something, lots of wood, wet smoke, and ash.

This is wild and I love it. Really brash profile with the smoke, wood, vegetal notes, and some herbal medicine thing going on, like something your grandma’s grandma would use when they’re sick. I was a bit taken aback when I first tried this, but as I get through the bottle I like it more and more. It’s very complex and keeps opening itself up to you as you drink it.

Review #107: The nose has powdered sugar, pinesol, lemon oils, old plastic, fresh wood, mix of fresh peppers, apple jacks cereal, red apples, light smoked herbs, leather, and motor oil.
The palate has lemon oils, fresh wood, red apples, honeydew, cooked red onion, and some fresh jalapeno, cinnamon and black pepper lasting on the finish.

I just did a side by side with this and a handful of other Marmorata to compare the differences in this agave. First was fruity, second funky like a Salmiana, third was medicinal and herbal, and this fourth was just as different as the rest. All this to say, I found this to have a great complexity with the woody and vegetal notes alongside specifically these sweeter crisp and fresh fruits that I haven’t found from most Marmorata. I find the nose and palate interestingly different too, a bit more brashness from the herbals on the nose than the sweeter palate with a peppery finish. I think this an impressive mezcal especially from a new group of mezcaleros and I’d be interested in where this takes them.

46% abv, lote CUAR01

Review #106: The nose has sweet florals, and light caramel. The palate has caramel, sweet florals, vanilla, crisp red apple, banana, cinnamon, and a bit of rubber on the finish.

This was the best of the wild common mezcals I’ve had. The nose was unfortunately underwhelming and light on aromas. The palate, though, brings a lot more complexity that I enjoyed with the mix of fruits and florals. It is different from other cuishes I’ve had. I would say this is a soft 7/10 but the flavors are pretty enough to give it that bump up.

Lote ESAN01, 47% abv

Review #105: Nose has vanilla, wood, gasoline, and rubber. Palate has vanilla, wood, black pepper, sweet cream, gasoline, ashy smoke, and a rubbery plasticy finish.

This is mildly okay. I think it’s too heavy with the off notes like gasoline and plastic with too heavy of a hand on the smoke. The sweet cream and vanilla are enough to keep this drinkable, but i imagine this better suited in a cocktail.

Review #103: Nose has chocolate, earth, wet leaves, petrichor, wool, and raspberry. Palate is chocolate, wet earth, sweet wood, cinnamon, corn, raspberry, lime, with some grass and sweet mint on the finish.

This is a delicious combo of earthy chocolate and raspberry, which is also one of my favorite ice-cream combos. The complexity isn’t very crazy here admittedly but I just love the bold flavors that are present. One of my personal favorite profiles I’ve had, and if there was more cohesive surrounding flavors this would be a knockout.

Review #102: The nose has chlorine, dandelions, milk chocolate, a bit butyric, and rosemary. The palate has leather, dandelion, milk chocolate, dried honeydew, milk, caramel, and the finish has rosemary and oregano.

A weirder tobala for sure. Usually I tend to find some sort of dominant note of florals, fruits, or pine, but this had lots of leather, chocolate, and herbs. Sure, a bit of a weird dandelions note and a soft melon, but definitely not what I expected from it. Anyway, the flavors work well besides some noticeable off notes I found that keep this from being great.

Review #102: On the nose is sweet sharpie, fresh watermelon, and pinesol. The palate has sweet jalapeno, watermelon juice, pine, lemongrass, grapefruit, lemon oils, vanilla, while the finish has some bitter smokes herbs and black pepper.

This is a really fun mix of the vegetal tepextate and fruity tobala. The jalapeno and sweet watermelon play well off eachother having a back and forth alongside the bright acidity. The finish is anticlimactic and what holds this back for me with a bit too much brash smokey bitterness.

Review #101: On the nose I get jalapeno, mango, light cream, cotton, licorice, old wood, cola, and dried herbs. The palate has licorice, wood, lemon, cola, fresh coffee, mango skin, and rosemary.

I find this really fun with its herbal profile alongside some soft fruits and darker cola notes. I found it leans more into the bicuixe flavors I would expect. A bit thin overall but it has a good intensity and length to it.

Review #100: The nose is very aromatic, buttery croissant, apricot, fresh honey, vanilla, banana bread, roasted nuts, cinnamon, sweet tobacco, and wet clay. The palate has more croissant, banana bread, apricot, peach, honey, milk chocolate, roasted nuts, and nearing the finish some cinnamon, moss, and clay.

This is one of the prettiest mezcals that I have had. The nose is so aromatic. It fills the air with this smell reminiscent of a nice cigar and a soft bready sweetness. The palate follows as expected, with a beautiful development from a light fruity sweet start to a more earthy and nutty finish. It’s both delicate but full of flavor. Truly amazing and a new ceiling for this kind of profile

52.3% abv, Lot S-19-EBCSNM-20

Review #99: Nose has leather, cinnamon, apple, raisins, tobacco, and a dusty earthiness. Palate has more of the cinnamon covered apples, raisins, leather, sweet tobacco, lime, champagne, a bit metallic, and the finish has a dusty earth and clay minerality.

This is a solid bottle and one of my firsts. I found it a bit hard to judge for a while until about halfway through. It took time for me to get those fruit notes, but the really shine with the dusty earth, cinnamon, and leather. This was a predominantly espadin forward batch so i look forward to trying more variable batches in the future.

Review #98: The nose is so pungent, with lots of strawberries and cream, pineapple, minty toothpaste, bubblegum, butyric acid, puke, the crap you pick out of your toenails, rotting wood, cotton candy, parmesan, and a grungy car shop. The palate has more strawberries and cream, a big dollop of mint toothpaste, cotton candy, bubblegum, parmesan, butyric acid, and lasting acidity like pineapple on the finish.

I’m going to start off saying, and I’m surprised noone else has, this has so much butyric. A mix of what you pick out from under your toenails and puke. The aromas seriously travel across an entire room and the further they travel, the more the butyric dominates. It’s 100% a mood pour and there’s so much I like about it but this is just weird. Love the juicy fruity profile this has and although I’m sensitive to the butyric I find myself mostly enjoying it with the rest of the profile. This is wild stuff and it’s really hard for me to rate. This honestly feels oddly like a 3/5 and a 5/5 at the same time for me, so I’ll meet myself in the middle here.

47.1% abv, lot SLR009/17

Review #97: Nose is full of blueberry, cotton candy, grape candy, candied rose, melons, wet granite, salt, and roasted brussel sprouts. The palate has more grape candy, lemon, vanilla, melons, rose, salty minerality, and some smoke on the finish.

This is awesome for the price. Really big and bright aromas and flavors with a moderate complexity. Realistically, this is around as good as it gets for this price point. There’s minor astringency and enough smoke for the flavors to be a touch harsh, but other than that this is really great and probably something I’ll keep on hand