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On The Trail of the Misterios Coyote (and Another Chapter of Agave Varieties...
So there I was, there I was, in the Congo. Oops, wrong story. There I was at the bar at Empellon in the West Village in NYC. Matt Resler, bartender extraordinaire, passionate agave expert, and all...
View ArticleMezcal Statistics: Parsing the 2011 COMERCAM Data
COMERCAM, which is the government entity in Mexico that regulates mezcal production and certification, publishes a limited set of data on the mezcal market every year. The information comes with a bit...
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How Many Varieties of Agave Can Be Used to Make Mezcal? (Take 2)
Here we go. Strap on your agave nerd hat! I have been working on this new piece for months. I put up my first post on this topic in May, but I have learned more since then and this list is better....
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What Is Mezcal and Why Is It Happening Now?
Like many of my posts, I try to hit upon themes that I hear about all the time from friends, family and people I meet. If I had a bottle of mezcal for every time I am asked “What is mezcal?”, I would...
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Mezcal: It’s a Movement, Not a Moment
Recently, I put up a post on why mezcal is happening now. I started thinking about this again (well, OK, I am always thinking about this) as I saw yet another article where they described the recent...
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How Do You Know A Quality Mezcal? What is Traditional Mezcal? What is...
There is a debate going around in the mezcal community (yes, there is a community for pretty much everything – are you a member of the A-Rod’s Homeopathic Treatments Club?) about what the definition is...
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Mezcal, Tequila, Sotol, Bacanora, Raicilla, Pulque, and More…
As you certainly all know by now, any distilled agave-based spirit is a mezcal. So under the broad category of mezcal, we have a variety of spirits that are unique in their own right. Also, in the...
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El Jolgorio: A Boutique Mezcal with Many Varietals
As a regular reader, you know I have a fascination with the diversity of agaves from which mezcal can be made. From my-likely-to-be-highly-inaccurate accounting, I am somewhere in the mid-40’s of...
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New Mezcal Regulations Are Brewing…..err…Distilling
Many people in and around the mezcal world know that “change is a comin'” to the Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-070-SCFI-1994, which is the law that governs the application of Mezcals’ Denomination of...
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Tequila vs. Mezcal
I first published this post in 2012. At the time, mezcal was little known. And while the battle for recognition is still uphill, mezcal is far more popular today than it was back then. Since 2012,...
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