Turns out, Australia’s northern climate is ideal for growing agave, the foundation of tequila and mezcal. And over the past decade, a small group of distillers has been giving the two styles a red-hot ...
Humans have made the agave plant an object of prickly obsession for thousands of years. For ancient Mesoamericans, it was a civilization-building source of fibre and food. For early European explorers ...