Thanks to photographs of tequila production, and indeed Espadín agave in mezcal production, there is a perception that agave piña, the core or head of the plant, the part used for production, are ...
Agave-based spirits are some of the most complex spirits on the planet. This is largely because the pineapple-shaped cores of the spiky plant can take up to 14 years to ripen, giving plenty of ...
And yet, alcohol did not emerge from these plants until ... who loved tequila, the story goes, and was tired of buying it at exorbitant rates overseas. He decided to use agave grown in India ...
All tequila is mezcal, but not all mezcal is tequila! The story of agave spirits begins in Mexico, where the blue agave plant is the source of tequila, while mezcal is crafted from various other ...