Agave is the heart of any bottle of mezcal. When produced in a traditional manner, mezcal is more than just a simple distillation of agave. It reflects generations of focus on these unique and ...

'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera)is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Glasses of mezcal on a table - Edgar Xolot/Shutterstock For a long time, Mexico's spirit scene was dominated by tequila, and to ...

MURRIETA, Calif.MURRIETA, Calif. — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the southeast tip of a large valley in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental is the small Mexican ...

This past May my company Taste Select Repeat, a shopping and education resource for spirits, hosted a tutorial on types of tequila and mezcal. Besides sharing and analyzing pours, we also set the ...

Tequila can only be made from Blue Weber agave, while mezcal can be made from a variety of different species. Agave is the heart of any bottle of mezcal. When produced in a traditional manner, mezcal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started ...