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Mezcal substitutes

Out of mezcal? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to mezcal in flavor space. Falernum is closest at 54%.

  1. 01
    Falernum
    54% flavor match
  2. 02
    Amaro
    54% flavor match
  3. 03
    Campari
    51% flavor match
  4. 04
    Chartreuse
    50% flavor match
  5. 05
    Cynar
    50% flavor match
  6. 06
    Maraschino Liqueur
    49% flavor match
  7. 07
    Cachaca
    48% flavor match
  8. 08
    Absinthe
    48% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to mezcal in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.

Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.