Apr 23, 2019 | Agave, Tastings, Travel
I’m excited to be heading to Tucson next week for the local Agave Heritage Festival because of all the luminaries involved and, well, it’s Tucson and I’m excited to explore the desert. As much as California is agave country, the Sonoran Desert is an...
Apr 16, 2019 | Making Mezcal
Driving down the road to Craig Reynolds’ agave roast out this past Sunday. I passed groves of walnuts, olives, and grapes all powered by a chunk of the big irrigation canal that makes California such an agricultural powerhouse. All of that along with the freeway that...
Apr 11, 2019 | Brands, Durango, Travel, Uncategorized
Ferron Salniker, Mezcalistas’ event manager and special correspondent extraordinaire, recently spent time in Oaxaca and Durango, researching the changing and evolving roles of women in the food and spirits world. This is the first of a series of articles. “The...
Apr 11, 2019 | Brands, Mezcals
Maguey Melate is a new idea on the mezcal scene, a subscription service for small batch mezcals that will get you some of those small batch mezcals that you can’t find outside of Oaxaca delivered to your doorstep here in the US. but it’s so much more because the...
Apr 5, 2019 | Bars and Restaurants, Events, Mezcal: Mexico in a Bottle, Tastings, Uncategorized
We’re just three weeks away from Mexico in a Bottle Chicago and we’ve put together a whole bunch of great programming, both in and out of the event. Chicago Rum Fest is Saturday, April 27th at Logan Square Auditorium and we are very happy to be working...
Apr 4, 2019 | Brands, Tasting Notes
Welcome to the new wave of mezcals. Wait, this is the old wave but it’s hitting us today. Which means that people like Ben Scott, the importer of Mezcal Mal Bien and Lalocura, is recognizing the old way of making mezcal batch by batch and bringing that culture to us...
Apr 3, 2019 | Encyclopedia of Mezcal, Making Mezcal
Abocado not avocado, let’s get that straight right out of the chute. They’re vastly different words for vastly different things. Abocado is one of those funny words that has vastly different meanings depending on the context. In the word of associations...
Apr 2, 2019 | Durango, Making Mezcal, Travel
This is the second of a series of pieces about the mezcal scene in Durango by Tess Rose Lampert. Be sure to check out her first overview piece here. There is no denying Oaxaca’s unique magic, especially when it intertwines with the local mezcal traditions. It is...
Mar 27, 2019 | Encyclopedia of Mezcal, Making Mezcal
Perlas is literally translated as “pearls” and means the little bubbles that form on the top of mezcal when it is agitated. It’s a beautiful term for a phenomenon associated with our favorite spirit, but something else is going on on when you shake...
