The Contagious Patience of Mezcal
The best agave spirits require a lot of patience. It takes an awful lot of time for the agave to mature, it can take a lot of time to get to the mezcaler@s who make the best spirits, and you won’t taste the full complexity of those spirits without taking your sweet time sipping them. Ismael Gomez of Cruz de Fuego Mezcal thinks all of the patience required has had an effect on me. I try to talk him out of it in this episode of Agave Road Trip!
Agave Road Trip is a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast that helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico. This episode is hosted by Lou Bank and Ismael Gomez of Laika Spirits and Cruz de Fuego Mezcal.
Episode Notes
If you liked the anecdote about Aithan Shapira, click here to watch his TedX presentation!
I couldn’t decide which picture of Ismael I liked best, so here are two, both taken on our recent trip from Mexico City to Hidalgo to Vera Cruz to Tabasco to Chiapas back to Vera Cruz then Puebla and back to Mexico City. In six days. Which kind of proves my point about patience.
