We love Mexico! We love visiting, love eating the food, love drinking the drinks, love checking out the art! We love buying examples of all of these things and we love bringing those things back home to share with our friends, to encourage them to go love Mexico! But … are we loving it to death? We question our intentions and impact — with help from Fabiola Santiago — in this episode of Agave Road Trip!

What you serve your agave spirit in is just as important as which agave spirit you serve. A beautifully crafted, heritage agave spirit served in a snifter? That snifter may work great for whiskey, but it’s less than ideal for unaged, high-proof agave spirits. So what should you use? How about a vaso veladora? These traditional little glass candle holders are what you see all over Mexico for drinking. Go to mezcalforlife.com, where they stock this and other barware – or mezcaleria-ware – in bulk. For $72 mezcalforlife.com will ship you 48 of these beautiful, traditional Mexican drinking vessels. Or … use code AGAVE15 for 15% off your order. Great servicewear, at a great price, at mezcalforlife.com!

Agave Road Trip is a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast that helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico. It’s hosted by Lou Bank and Chava Periban. 

Notes

To read Fabiola Santiago’s essay, “What to know before Traveling to Oaxaca,” click here. Her related essay on how tourism has impacted the celebrations of Dia de los Muertos is related and also insightful: “How the commercialization of Todos Santos impacts Indigenous communities.“