How Agave Biodiversity Protects Tequila’s Tomorrow A bottle of tequila begins years before anyone pours it. Before fermentation. Before distillation. Before barrels. Before there is even a harvested piña. It begins with a living plant rooted in Mexican soil. And that...
Why Letting Agaves Flower Matters to Tequila’s Future Most tequila drinkers know the agave piña. Far fewer ever see what happens when a mature agave is not harvested. From the center of the plant rises a towering flower stalk known as a quiote. Flowers open high above...
The Nectar Corridor: How Agave, Bats and México Connect Tequila to a Much Bigger Story A bottle of tequila begins with agave. But the story of agave does not end at the edge of an agave field. After sunset across parts of México and the American Southwest,...
