Jun 13, 2019 | Denominación de Origen, Law, Sustainability
The below article was written by Rion Toal who has been on the ground in Oaxaca for the past several years working with the Maestros del Mezcal AC. He is also the importer of Mezcales CUISH, NETA and soon, Amormata. For the past three years, in forums and...
Jun 5, 2019 | Agave, Denominación de Origen, Events, Making Mezcal, Sustainability
I’ve been writing about agave distilling projects in California and sotol distillation in Texas for some time because they’re expanding the world of mezcal. Those projects are interesting for what they are in and of themselves and because of questions they raise about...
May 28, 2019 | Denominación de Origen, Oaxaca, Travel
It’s hard to believe that I am off to Mexico in a couple of days for some mezcal adventures. Advance planning always makes things seem so distant and then boom, the day of departure appears out of nowhere. A few months ago I was accepted into the Dia del...
May 22, 2019 | Bars and Restaurants, Denominación de Origen, Sustainability
Interesting news this week in the form of an email from Silvia Philion of Oaxaca’s Mezcaloteca: The project of Mezcaloteca seeks to generate traceability and honesty – fair trade, by sharing in our labels the name, community and recipe of the maestros...
Feb 26, 2019 | Denominación de Origen, Media
I’m always happy when mezcal gets the limelight treatment. Gone, hopefully, are the days when the trend in major media was to talk about it as “tequila’s smoky cousin” or a labored description of it as something other than the bottle with the worm in it. Sadly mezcal...
Jan 31, 2019 | Denominación de Origen, Raicilla
There was news this week that raicilla would be getting its own Denominacion de Origen (DO). The devil of course is in the details. Having been overshadowed by the tequila industry, raicilla began taking root in consumers minds in the U.S. with the introduction of La...
