The flagship CNN news program takes a look at mezcal, especially in Oaxaca, Mexico, with the families that run distilleries producing this spirit growing in popularity worldwide.
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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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Gordon Ramsay Uncharted in Oaxaca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up8BUFWtRhM Follow Gordon into rural Oaxaca to dig up insects, battle bees, sip mezcal, and learn how to make Oaxacan mole. Mezcal comes in at minute 32.
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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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