At an event March7th at the distillery, now my palate from growing up in West Texas and living on the Border(Laredo) for 5+ years and drinking my way from Brownsville/Matamoras to Eagle Pass/Piedras Negras. (Herradura Tequila, Mescal from the Mexican Moonshiners and more recently Hacienda de Chihuahua Sotol) with a Large fatty Liver to attest to the years of continual consumption.
I was way underwhelmed by the Desert Sotol spirit. Too close in taste to Tequila with a petroleum aftertaste. Has a ways to go in refinement. Sotol should not taste like mediocre Tequila.