The Blue Gold Rush is on
Driving around Amatitán last week one thing was clear. If there's any arable land, even the most liminal, there is blue agave growing in it. Roadside shoulders, a patch of dirt between rocks, under fruit trees, let alone open fields
What’s a fair price for agave? Tequila edition
I’m still catching up with things from my trip so I’m late to this Insta post from Tequila Matchmaker last month which charts what they know about blue agave prices today and projected into the future.
Agave inflation or right pricing?
Agave prices in Jalisco just keep rising. Per a friend in the business blue agave in Jalisco is "27 (pesos/kilo) for good, mature, and ripe agave, 24/25 for unripe agave." He also noted that it's the rainy season now which
Agave price update

David Suro on the agave price spike
Yesterday Siembra Valles and Tequila Interchange Project founder David Suro posted the following to Facebook on the agave price spike that everyone has been discussing over the past months. In July it seemed like 18 pesos a kilo was extravagant,