Rey Campero Espadín (48.5%, Lot D5110-E1)

N: sloeberries, cool mountain air, new tires, salty smoke 

P: salty, cooling high altitude evergreen forest, less rubber and smoke than the nose but both are here. Juniper and sloe, with a sliver of spearmint and a longish, chilly finish. Such a wintry agave

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Rey Campero Jabalí (48.6%, Lot D5044-I1)

N: wool, penicilin, orange, gravel, dive bar

P: again very wooly and somewhat moldy, with citrus and dust and smoke-stained clothing

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Rey Campero Madrecuishe (48.4%, Lot D5024-MC)

N: yesterday’s ash tray, banana or plantain

P: relatively flat, with a bunch of ash tray smoke that’s less attractive than it was on the nose, and chrysanthemum tea

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Rey Campero Cuishe (48.7%, Lot D5023-C)

N: grass and green/underripe tropical fruit, marijuana ash or resin

P: green and resiny, green peppercorn or longpepper, ashy smoke, green banana, green pineapple

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Rey Campero Tepeztate (48.4%, Lot D5017-T)

N: Juicy Fruit, sakura, pretty and fruity and sweet and very pink, with some sweaty stink

P: much the same: cherry blossom, yellow tropical fruit, sweet smoke, less of the stink here but thankfully it ain’t gone

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La Medida Tepeztate (46.39%, NOM-0209X, José Díaz Bustamante)

N: Dubble Bubble, strawberry milk, cabbage/sauerkraut

P: half-chewed chewing gum, medicinal (Ceclor, which is a flavor burned into my memory from childhood because I turned out to be allergic to it and was rushed to the hospital looking like a puffer fish)

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