Then, in the 16th century, the Spanish arrived with their distillation know-how, transforming pulque into agave wine or mezcal wine. The latter term comes from two Nahuatl words: meztl (maguey ...
If you’re familiar with tequila and mezcal, you might think you know all about Mexico’s agave spirits. But there's another hidden gem worth discovering: raicilla. Often described as the ...
With wine barrels the result is something gentler ... View of a plantation of agave, the prime material for the production of Tequila, taken on the ... [+] outskirts of the municipality of ...