A new wave of hyper-regional terroir-driven agave-based spirits have arrived Stateside. Here are some of the very best ...

A look at sango, an African sibling of tequila utilizing agave. The post Sango is the agave spirit you’ve never heard of (yet ...

Some argue mezcal certification is corrupt ... it’s distilled from a species of agave named after the region’s primary Indigenous group, Yaquiana.

In fact, tequila is technically a type of mezcal — both spirits are made from agave plants, but tequila can only be made with Blue Weber agave, while mezcal can come from around 30 to 40 ...

With all the buzz around popular agave spirits these days, it pays to know a thing or two about the surging category. The ...

Education will begin Tuesday at Madera Community College with an overview of what it takes to get into agave farming.

while mezcal is crafted from various other agave species. The uniqueness of these spirits lies in their terroir– the specific environmental factors influencing the plants’ growth – which ...

Agave spirits are incredibly popular at the moment, but that’s mostly relegated to tequila sales. Mezcal currently makes up just a small portion of the category, but it’s growing every year.

Once the agave plants have matured ... It’s the second distillation that creates Agua Mágica’s mezcal. Despite having made mezcal since he was a teenager, Hernández, who always wanted ...

Mezcals may be made from a species of agave (there are 30) called maguey as well. But for the mezcal aficionado it is the smokiness of the spirit that shows the difference—a belief dispelled ...

Tequila, (and its sister spirit mezcal), can only be made in Mexico from Mexican agaves. Instead, the juice from these Australian plants will ultimately be turned into "Australian agave spirit".

Mezcal Amarás, the proudly Mexican-founded and owned brand offering an impressive range of the highest quality mezcals made from agave responsibly and respectfully harvested in Oaxaca, Durango, and ...