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Beyond mezcal and tequila
Mexico distils far more than two spirits. Sotol comes from a desert plant that is not even an agave, bacanora spent 77 years outlawed, and raicilla tastes like almost nothing else on the shelf. Here is what each category actually is, and every bottle we track.
Every category
Sotol93 bottlesDesert spoon, not agaveSotol is a Mexican desert spirit distilled from Dasylirion — a desert spoon plant, not an agave — mostly in Chihuahua, Durango and Coahuila.Raicilla50 bottlesJalisco's coastal agave spiritRaicilla is an agave distillate from Jalisco and Nayarit, made from maximiliana, inaequidens and other regional agaves in coastal and mountain palenques.Bacanora41 bottlesSonora's once-outlawed spiritBacanora is a Sonoran agave spirit made exclusively from Agave angustifolia (pacífica), legal again only since 1992 after 77 years of prohibition.Lechuguilla11 bottlesWild highland agave distillateLechuguilla is a wild-agave distillate from Durango, Jalisco and Zacatecas, made from small highland agaves outside any denomination of origin.Destilado de Agave2667 bottlesOutside the denomination, inside the traditionDestilado de agave covers traditional agave spirits made outside the mezcal denomination of origin — same craft, different label.Tuxca5 bottlesThe Colima–Jalisco border spiritTuxca is an agave distillate from the Tuxcacuesco region on the Colima–Jalisco border, typically blending cultivated and wild agaves.