Agave Trails
Every agave state tastes different. Pick a trail, work through its bottles, and your reviews count toward regional badges on your Agave Passport.
- Oaxaca
The Oaxaca Trail
The heartland of mezcal
Oaxaca produces the majority of certified mezcal — from the espadín fields of Santiago Matatlán to the wild tobalá of the Sierra Sur. Work through this trail to taste the range of a single state that behaves like a dozen.
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- Jalisco
The Jalisco Trail
Highlands, valleys and blue agave
Jalisco is tequila country: Los Altos highland agave leans sweet and floral, while the Valles lowlands around the town of Tequila run earthier and more mineral. Taste both to understand terroir in blue weber agave.
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- Durango
The Durango Trail
High desert cenizo
Durango's altitude and cold nights give agave cenizo (durangensis) a dry, herbal, smoke-forward profile that stands apart from Oaxacan mezcal.
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- Michoacán
The Michoacán Trail
Cupreata country
Michoacán mezcal is built on agave cupreata grown on steep volcanic slopes — expect bright fruit, wet stone and a long green finish.
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- Guerrero
The Guerrero Trail
Papalote and mountain mezcal
Guerrero's papalote agave (a cupreata cousin) produces some of the most aromatic mezcal in Mexico, historically consumed locally rather than exported.
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- Puebla
The Puebla Trail
Mixteca agaves and pulque roots
Puebla spans the Mixteca Poblana's arid agave slopes and the pulque highlands, giving mezcal that is dusty, savoury and quietly complex.
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- Sonora
The Sonora Trail
Bacanora and the Sonoran desert
Sonora is home to bacanora, distilled from agave pacifica and legal again only since 1992 after decades of prohibition.
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- Chihuahua
The Chihuahua Trail
Sotol and the northern plateau
Chihuahua's signature spirit, sotol, is not agave at all — it comes from the desert spoon plant, producing green, peppery, pine-scented distillates.
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- San Luis Potosí
The San Luis Potosí Trail
Salmiana and the altiplano
The Potosino altiplano yields mezcal from agave salmiana — big, vegetal and famously savoury, often with a briny edge.
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