Jul 23, 2019 | Denominación de Origen
This past week Tales of the Cocktail managed to happen successfully in New Orleans. For a few minutes there it seemed like the apocalypse was going to descend, fortunately it was spared and the confluence of bartenders, spirits producers, and all the hangers on that...
Jul 23, 2019 | Denominación de Origen, Oaxaca
Last August, Mexico’s Institute of Industrial Property or IMPI, announced that it had accepted applications for Aguascalientes, Estado de Mexico, and Morelos to be included in the mezcal denomination (officially called the Denominacion de Origen or DO for...
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...
