Description
Join us as we explore the origins of both Mezcal (Mexico’s oldest spirit), and Tequila (Mexico’s most famous spirit). We will also sample various examples of today’s versions of these historic spirits. Mezcal, Mexico’s oldest distilled spirit, originated around 1520 when the Spanish who had recently taken control of what would become Mexico, ran low on Brandy and started making a crude version of Mezcal. The word Mezcal is possibly a reference to the Nahuatl word “metl ixcali” which means cooked agave. Around 1600, the Marquis of Altamira opened the first large-scale distillery in the town of Tequila in the Mexican state of Jalisco and the spirit was originally referred to as “mezcal vino de Tequila” referring to the town of Tequila.
