Dave Miller’s 2018 Holiday Wine Guide
Your guide to getting the right wine for your 2018 holidays. A few years back we did a little post on wines for the holidays. I thought it would be […]
5 Mezcal Everyone Needs to Experience… with Gilbert Marquez of Mezcal Ilegal
I was recently at Mexico in a Bottle, the “biggest, baddest” mezcal tasting event in North America put on by the Mezcalistas team of Susan Coss and Max Garrone. Gilbert Marquez of Mezcal Ilegal was also there. For those of you not familiar with Ilegal, just know this… they’ve made […]
Santo Maguey! Ed Draves wades into a night of mezcal…
When you travel like I do, frequently your writings suffer. So does your time to just sit with friends, relax with some good mezcal and talk about life. Recently I […]
Ed Draves Samples… Almamezcalera, Destillados de Maguey
In August I had the pleasure to stop by and visit with my friend Erick Rodriguez in Mexico City. I first met Erick a few years back when he arrived at Wahaka Mezcal in San Dionesio Ocotepec one morning with Clayton Szczech of Experience Tequila in tow. What a great […]
Ed Draves Samples… Mezcal El Rey Zapoteco
I’ve got to be honest, I can’t believe we have not reviewed mezcal from El Rey Zapoteco before. As one of the oldest established brands in Oaxaca, these guys have a great reputation. Just look at how often they show up on our “5 Mezcals Everyone Needs to Experience” lists. […]
Mezcal! The Importance of Being There.
By Ed Draves One of the great perks of working in the wine industry is world travel. I’ve traveled to wineries and tasted wines across New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Germany […]
Ed Draves Samples… mezcal reviews you can use…
Most people will never get a chance to enjoy the great variety of mezcals made in Mexico. One of the reasons for that is simple geography. You’ve got to be near the source, or you’re not gonna have many options. Let’s face it, it is only at a palenque that […]
A Huge Feliz Cumpleaños to Ulises Torrentera…
I first met Ulises Torrentera, the man who literally wrote the book[s] on Mezcal, a few years back. I had our mezcal taster Ed Draves in tow and we were […]
Ed Draves Samples… L.A. Cetto Wines of Baja California
I’ve been rumbling around this region of Mexico since the early 1990’s. For awhile, I think I knew every pothole on both routes to get to Ensenada from Tijuana. While I get there less frequently these days, my love affair with Mexico started in this region and the cities of […]
Ed Draves Samples… Sotol Por Siempre
Here’s something a little different for you to try, Sotol. My first experience with this spirit was at the first annual Taste of Mexico Celebration held at St Vibiana’s in Los […]
