Journal

The archive, reopened.

What mezcal is under Mexican law, where it can be made, and how its categories and classes are organised.

Five stages, a lot of fire and time: harvest, cooking, milling, fermentation and distillation.

One spirit, dozens of plants. How to read an agave's name, and why diversity is also a responsibility.

How to build a mezcal cocktail without burying the agave, plus three original house recipes.

What mezcal's denomination of origin protects, who certifies it, and what separates an artesanal from an ancestral mezcal.

Output grew eightfold in a decade. What that means for wild plants, and what to ask as a drinker.