Agave Spirts are Flying All Around You
Mezcal is an iconic element of the ancient Mesoamerican cultural and culinary heritage that was recently recognized by UNESCO as a gastronomic tradition of global significance. These delightfully delicious food and beverage traditions and wild fermentation practices of Mexico...
What We Muse over Agave Spirits
Our book, Agave Spirits, will be available in less than 2 months from W.W. Norton, but here's what David Suro and I muse over in its pages...
Time to come together to Delight in the Diversity of Agave Spirits
It is time to come together to delight in the diversity of agave spirits. But we are also determined to “deconstruct” and demolish that still-widespread assumption that tequila has some exceptional status among agave spirits.
Agave Spirits Wilder than Ghosts, Banshees, and Zombies
Agave spirits are among the most complex of any distillates. An entire symphony of sensations and scents are embedded in each bottle, as mezcals, ancestral tequilas, and other agave distillates benefit from remarkably rich interactions among succulent plants, fermentation microbes, pollinators, and ancient cultural traditions.
We’re entering into an Endlessly Fascinating Domain of Mesoamerican culture, Agriculture, Folklore, and Pleasure
This year, I will be among the many celebrating the versatility, vigor, rigor and future of the century plant, aka agave, maguey or mezcal.