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Sembrar/crecer – plant and grow. The rumors of agave’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

For hundreds of years, family producers have made mezcal in small batches according to time-honored processes.

Mezcal is made from plants that take a long time to grow. These plants–agaves–are harvested–often from the w…

Wildcrafted agave is probably the area of greatest concern when we talk about the sustainability of mezcal. Hum…

This is perhaps the least worrisome of the sustainability issues. I mean that factually, not as a matter of per…

Of all the concerns in mezcal production sustainability–cultivated agave, agaves sylvestres (wildcrafted), fir…

We buy small batch mezcals from the families that make them. Why small batch? Because that’s how mezcal is trad…

Cuentacuentos promotes and distributes traditionally-made Mezcal. We cultivate and curate a network of traditio…