An intriguing article about a new premium mezcal flavored with high-end Wagyu beef, a favorite among many chefs. While pechuga-flavored mezcal is quite common (using turkey breast in the final stages of production to give a distinct flavor), this beef-flavored mezcal from Paquera may be a first. Click on the image to link to the […]
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Did you know that agave, or maguey, the plant that mezcal is derived from, is NOT a cactus, but is more closely related to the asparagus?
Or that there is a Filipino connection to mezcal?
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Charming and familial, the palenques of Oaxaca reveal the heart of mezcal production.
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Both are distilled alcoholic drinks from maguey made in Mexico. But tequila is only from blue agave, and is made in the Mexican state of Jalisco, while mezcal can be from thirty different species of maguey, and is made in several states – but most prominently in the southern state of Oaxaca. The most essential […]
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Mezcal has grown to worldwide fame, especially in the past 10 years. “Even in Mexico, the embrace of mezcal outside of its origin states came slowly. Gonzalo Goût, the 33-year-old co-owner and beverage director of mezcal destination Ticuchi in Mexico City, says, “For my grandmother, drinking tequila was something ranchers did. Then my mother and […]
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