As the caption suggests I am stuck at a hotel bar and this is one of two mezcals they have, the other being 400 Conejos, about which I have no further comment. They did have some decent tequila (Fortaleza, Ocho) so I stuck to that mostly, but figured why not, I will try the great and famous celebrity-adjacent mezcal from the guys who made a tv show that was popular 15 years ago. 

Well, yikes. This stuff comes on more like blanco tequila, like I would swear this was electric crushed and steamed instead of tahona milled and cooked. It is an enormously bland and flabby agave spirit. Maybe some like, artificial cotton candy on the nose, but really more like steamed vegetables. Are we sure there is no autoclave here?? In the glass there is a taste of … nothingness. Notes of suppressed butane? A whisper of Windex? It’s like drinking packing peanuts, or that weird peanut foam candy. 

Maybe this was better 5 years ago? Maybe the bafflingly expensive Tobala sucks less? Maybe this could ease in a complete novice to care about mezcal?? Except on that last point, I dunno—it’s pretty bad, and my glass pour was $22, and I feel like if this was the first mezcal I tried I would be bummed. it’s not even that it was bad, more just that it was bland and sad and boring. 

Good thing I have something better stashed up in my room. 

Stuck at a hotel bar, I will review the Dos Hombres Espadin