Mezcal boom changes lives for Oaxacan families - CBS News
WEB1 day ago — September 29, 2024 / 7:32 PM EDT / CBS News. Armando and Alvaro Hernandez are fourth-generation mezcal producers from Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states. In the 80s and 90s, when the Hernandez ...
Mezcal emerges from tequila's shadow as Mexico's family ... - CBS News
WEB1 day ago — Demand for mezcal was low for years, but interest and sales have soared. The vast majority of the spirit is made in Oaxaca, Mexico, where family-owned distilleries dot the landscape.
Mezcal producers preserve traditional methods as demand for ... - CBS News
WEB1 day ago — Demand for mezcal was low for years, but interest and sales have soared. The vast majority of the spirit is made in Oaxaca, Mexico, where family-owned distilleries dot the landscape.
The Race to Save Mezcal From the World | Smithsonian
WEBAt Real Minero, among its most famous palenques, as Oaxaca’s small mezcal distilleries are known, a bountiful garden showcases the rich diversity of agave plants from which mezcal can be made,...
Wild agave plants that make the best mezcal are getting harder to …
WEBJan 23, 2024 — Oaxaca. Santiago has been cutting down wild agave since he was 7, when the succulents grew like weeds across the Oaxacan countryside. Then the outside world discovered mezcal, the spirit...
Mezcal Popularity Could Mean Another Tequila Boom for Mexico
WEBFeb 20, 2024 — Most tequila is a mass-produced commodity churned out in gleaming factories by the global liquor giants, but mezcal still comes from thousands of small family operations across Oaxaca and eight...
If You Sell ‘Oaxaca in a Bottle,’ What Happens to Oaxaca?
WEBNov 6, 2021 — Fausto Zapata, the chief executive and co-founder of El Silencio mezcal, hovered over a 45-foot-long table at his company’s plush resort outside of Oaxaca City, in the agave fields of...
Mexico's wild agave plants are disappearing — will mezcal follow? - NPR
WEBFeb 4, 2024 — Eight of the wild species that make mezcal are disappearing. Washington Post international investigative correspondent Kevin Sieff recently traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, to report on the...
A Mezcal Boom Spurs Creative Approaches to Dwindling Agave
WEBFeb 1, 2017 — Farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are counting plants and trying to take advantage of rising prices without pushing an important species towards extinction.
Watch 60 Minutes: Mezcal traditions preserved as demand grows
WEBMezcal producers preserve traditional methods as demand for liquor grows | 60 Minutes. Demand for mezcal was low for years, but interest and sales have soared. The vast majority of the spirit is made in Oaxaca, Mexico, where family-owned distilleries dot the landscape. Air Date: Sep 29, 2024.
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