A Dia de los Muertos Mezcal dinner for 2020
We have lost so much in 2020 that turning our heads to a Dia de los Muertos celebration feels simultaneously perfect and impossible. We are just at the beginning of our grief and trying to even wrap our heads around
Ultimate Spirits Challenge Mezcal Results 2020
For the last decade Ultimate Spirits Challenge (USC) has been the go-to spirits competition for industry professionals as well as savvy consumers. This is thanks to the unwavering integrity of the director and chairman Paul Pacult, and co-founders Sue Woodley
En memoriam – Don Aquilino García López
The mezcal family suffered an immense loss this week with the passing of Don Aquilino García López, patriarch of Mezcal Vago. From the Vago family: To those in the mezcal community, he was an absolute legend. To a lucky few, he
Transparency in mezcal (and quality too) – Vago’s Sierra Negra story
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Vago’s latest release, an incredibly small batch of Sierra Negra by Aquilino Garcia Lopez highlights smart and ethical behavior in the mezcal world. Each bottle that Vago releases is accompanied by a blog post that includes a highly detailed tech sheet that delves into everything you’d want to know about the bottle, the agaves and processes that produced it, and the people who made it. Dig into that, spend some time with it, think it over. All that information helps you put the scope of work that brought that bottle to you into perspective.
Agave on screen goes big time
Agave: Spirit of a Nation
Looky here, a new documentary about mezcal from the people who brought you Decanted featuring some of our favorite people in the mezcal world including Graciela Angeles, Aquilino Lopez, and Carlos Camarena. It won't be ready for release until early
Do you know how your mezcal labels are made?
Truth in manufacturing is seldom so direct. Watch this video about how Eric Ramirez makes Vago's labels. It's all manual and he only uses the leftover agave fibers from Vago's distillations. It doesn't get more basic than this which is