Vamos Agave! All about Tequila & Mezcal

It takes about one agave plant to make a bottle of Tequila or mezcal – and on average, 400 million agave hearts are distilled every year. But agave’s home nation, Mexico, is now just a small player in the market: about 75% of Mexico’s Tequila production is exported – and the United States in particular cannot seem to get enough of agave distillates. While Tequila is flying high, mezcal has performed spectacularly well in its slip-stream. An interesting development since every Tequila is in fact a mezcal. Mezcal is the name for all agave distillates. Tequila was coined when mezcal from the Mexican state of Jalisco was exported to America – labelled Mezcal de Tequila.