Forget tequila, mezcal is Mexico’s most complex spirit. Made in different states from a wide variety of agave species, mezcal compares more to wine than any other spirit in the world.

The US market for mezcal overtook Mexico's in 2019. But as demand soars stateside, small Mexican mezcal producers aren't making the big bucks. While Mexican regulations do require mezcal to be ...

Long before mezcal became a thing, ancient civilizations in what is now Mexico were brewing a fermented drink called pulque. This concoction was used to alter consciousness, so only priests and ...

Pulque is the oldest ancestor of two of Mexico's most popular alcoholic drinks, tequila and mezcal. It's not nearly as popular as the other two, but that wasn't always the case. In the late 1800s ...