Its a once in a generation sight in Morehead City.,A huge agave plant well known to the locals is blooming a rare sight happening just once in 10–25 years.Ne ...

Tequila is a hardened staple on any bar menu. From the Margarita to the Paloma, the Mexican spirit is king among consumers.

But in the early 1900s, Mexico’s first cartel was formed around a product that was relatively benign: tequila, the national spirit distilled from the pulped core of the blue agave plant.

Australia’s northern climate is ideal for agave, the foundation of tequila and mezcal. A small group of distillers has been ...

With "tequila tourism" gaining popularity in Mexico, a train taking tourists to the home of the spirit has relaunched after ...

According to Liquor.com, when the Spanish invaded Mexico in the 1500s, they used that same agave plant for distillation to create what is now known as mezcal. Soon after, blue agave plants were ...

Tequila could only be produced in the Mexican state of Jalisco and only use the blue "Weber" agave plant, one of the sweeter agave varieties from the highlands, or Los Altos. In 2006, UNESCO went ...

Tequila is a distilled spirit made from the blue agave plant, specifically “agave tequilana,” which thrives in the volcanic soils of Mexico’s Jalisco region. The process starts with jimadors ...

Journalist and author Ted Genoways follows the violent, unpredictable and hugely profitable world of tequila through the ...