Category: tequila

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Patron

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to the Patron distillery in the town of Atotonilco. (The distillery is on a huge plot of land. It's a huge distillery. This is the front gate.) (This is the hacienda, which is the center of the…

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Don Julio

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to the Don Julio distillery in the town of Atotonilco. (Cutting up the pinas before baking.) (Now when I see pinas, I get thirsty.) (Fermenting agave.) (Stainless steel pot stills.) (We had a cocktail contest after the…

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Sauza

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to the Sauza distillery in the town of Tequila. (First we visited the agave nursery. Sauza is unique in that they propagate their agave not by using baby plants but by… fancier scientific means.) (This is what…

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Herradura

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to theHerradura distillery in the town of Amatitan. (Here they split the agave in two before baking.) (The magic of Herradura is that it ferments naturally- no yeast is added.) (Sleeping tequila.) Agave grows for 7-10 years…

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Jose Cuervo

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to the Jose Cuervo distillery in the town of Tequila. (First we visited an agave field.) (The jimador harvested the agave plant to get the pina, or pineapple, center.) (I planted my own agave from the cuttings…

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Cazadores and Corzo

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to the Cazadores and Corzo distillery in the town of Arandas. (Autoclaves cook agave much faster than traditional brick/clay ovens.) (It's a huge operation here. The liquids travel in pipes through a tunnel beneath a road separating…

  • Hot Buttered Fun

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    Hot Buttered Fun would be a good party band name, right?  My latest post on FineCooking.com is up. It's a recipe for the Hot Buttered Anejo, which is a hot buttered tequila that I had one night when the brand Avion was pouring drinks at Elixir.  Check it out here. 

  • Tequila Distillery Visit: Casa Pedro Domecq

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    In November I visited seven tequila distilleries in Mexico. Here are some pictures and notes from my visit to Casa Pedro Domecq in the town of Arandas. (Agave being loaded into ovens. They use the same agave for treatment with rollermill as with tahona.) This distillery makes Tezon tequila, Olmeca Altos, and a mixto tequila for…

  • The Tequila-Sherry Connection

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    Every time I look for sherry I find tequila there too. What is it with the tequila people and the sherry people being the same people?   Steven Olson aka Wine Geek is both a tequila and mezcal ambassador and also a sherry ambassador.  Jacques Bezuidenhout, Partida tequila brand ambassador and sometimes sherry ambassador, also created…

  • Latin, Packing, Pisco: A Few Articles I’ve Written Lately

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    I've had several stories come out recently, so I thought I'd share them here. This blog is also my resume, after all.  Friday I wrote about my recent piece in the daily email Tasting Table San Francisco. This one is about Encanto Pisco, brought to us by a bartender, a sommelier, and a distiller.  Attention…