Post Tagged with: "mezcal"

Drink Spirits / May 4, 2010 4:52 pm

3 Amazing Tequila Drinks

Over the past few weeks we’ve been spending a lot of time with tequila and mezcal: sipping it, doing extensive tasting notes and mixing it up. All this lead to our monster piece with over 20 mezcal and tequila reviews and our Top 5 List of Mezcal and Tequila. While we love sipping good tequila and mezcal there are 3 mind blowing cocktails [...]

Drink Spirits / May 2, 2010 7:58 pm

Top 5 Tequila and Mezcal for Cinco de Mayo

We had such great feedback for our Top 10 Irish Whiskeys for St. Patrick’s Day piece that we decided to do something similar for Cinco de Mayo. After tasting over 20 different tequilas and mezcals, we’ve come up with our Top 5 Tequilas and Mezcals for Cinco de Mayo. Since this is our first year doing the list, there are [...]

Drink Spirits / March 22, 2010 8:04 pm

An Exploration of Tequila and Mezcal

After getting some really positive feedback on our piece exploring the world of Cognac, I thought I’d do something similar with Tequila and Mezcal. Like cognac, tequila refers to a spirit which must be distilled in a very specific part of the world. Originally called mezcal de tequila, this spirit is only tequila if it’s distilled in the Mexican state of Jalisco and [...]