16-05-2025
It's High Time You Added Sotol to Your Bar Cart
What can't sotol do? This traditional spirit from Northern Mexico may not ring a bell or be a mainstay in your drinks rotation (yet), but with its wide spectrum of flavors from bright and grassy to sweetly vegetal and herbaceous to earthy and lightly smoky to rich and woody it deserves a prime spot on your bar cart.
While it was previously classified (incorrectly) as an agave distillate and is often compared to agave-based spirits like mezcal, tequila, bacanora and raicilla, sotol is actually made from a group of plants in the dasylirion genus, which dot the Chihuahuan Desert and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango.
Accordingly, sotol has received a Mexican denomination of origin in 2004 not so dissimilar from Champagne or Scotch. According to Mexican law, if it's not from those three states, it cannot be labeled sotol.
Recipe: Sotol Pepino
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