Mezcal culture / By Julia G After sunset on October 31, Oaxaca City’s Panteón General is lit almost entirely by candles, one at the foot of every grave. Between the marigolds and the pan de muerto, you will often spot a bottle of mezcal, set out for someone who has traveled a very long way …
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This September, we crossed the Atlantic to bring our agave spirits into the heart of Italy’s bar community — and we did it from stand M02 inside Mexico Village. On September 14 and 15, 2026, Puntiagudo stood among nearly 200 exhibitors at the sixth edition of Roma Bar Show. For the first time the fair …
On the night of September 15, under the arches of the Mexican Embassy in Rome, we poured our destilados de agave for the 216th Anniversary of the beginning of Mexico’s Independence. That evening was not a trade-show aisle. It was a diplomatic reception — the embassy’s most important gathering of the year — where Mexico’s …
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November 2023 This extraordinary batch owes its flavor to a twist of fate in the life of Mario Acevedo. Several years ago, while harvesting a batch of Espadín planted by someone on a plot of land on the outskirts of Velató, his hometown, he noticed that some agave plants had grown significantly smaller than the …
Jima de maguey Atrovirens en la sierra norte de Oaxaca
La influencia de las tinas de fermentación en los sabores del Mezcal.
According to COMERCAM’s 2022 statistics, 95.56% of the mezcal sold in Mexico falls under the categories of Mezcal and Artisanal Mezcal, while only 0.44% corresponds to Ancestral Mezcal. The definition of each process is established according to the 070-SCFI-2016 standard, based on the characteristics of the methods and tools used during the main production stages …
We are proud to announce that Maestro Nazario Salas from the community of Atlapulco in the Mixteca Poblana, who collaborates with Puntiagudo in the production of artisanal mezcals, was awarded the Gold Medal at the PREMIO AL ORIGEN 2023 competition in the state of Puebla for the extraordinary spirit produced from Salmiana Ferox agave, which …
