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Mezcal, Step by Step: Decisions That Change the Glass


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This eisode follows the making of mezcal, showing how each choice shapes what you taste. You’ll move step by step through the journey—from which agave is chosen and when it’s harvested, through cooking, crushing, fermentation, and distillation, and finally into aging decisions and the last tuning at bottling. Along the way, the label becomes a kind of guide, pointing back to the plant, the place, the allowed methods, the batch, and the proof. A few careful comparisons to additive-free 100% agave tequila help sharpen what’s distinctive about mezcal without losing the thread of the story.

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One More SipBy Oleg Plakhotniuk