Driving past the rugged landscape for a stargazing adventure in Big Bend National Park, I noticed a specific spikey plant with a tall stalk. Like many, I mistook it for agave. I soon discovered that ...

What is Texas Sotol? It's a one-of-a-kind Texas spirit made from the evergreen sotol plant found in Texas and Mexico. Still of Sotol plant The taste is smoother than whiskey, less smokey than mezcal ...

Keep reading for everything you need to know about sotol. Sotol is the name for both the distillate and its source: the sotol plant, a desert shrub native to the Chihuahuan Desert that spans West ...

Notes of licorice. Hints of smoked Gouda. A whiff of—what is that, Band-Aids? This is the Mexican distilled spirit known as sotol, or at least one of the more flamboyant versions of it. There are ...

Though best known for tequila and mezcal, Mexican spirits are as diverse as the country itself. In addition to these agave-based favorites, Mexico produces raicilla, charanda, bacanora and other ...

At Sotol Don Celso in Janos, Chihuahua, sixth-generation sotolero Jacob Jaquez opens a horno, an underground oven lined with volcanic rock. Inside, four tons of a desert plant called Dasylirion ...

We’re far from the first to predict that sotol is going to be the next big thing. In fact, both sotol and it’s sister spirit, bacanora (a Sonoran spirit that, mind you, will likely become the new ...

I never even knew about this traditional spirit until I came to the state of Chihuahua and toured the Casa Ruelas Distillery in the small town of Aldama. I imagined it would be similar to visiting a ...

Join Brad as he visits Desert Door Distillery to learn how to harvest and distill sotol, a tequila-like spirit from Texas Hill Country. of making Sotol, which is harvesting. So Sotol, I just see, ...

In late January, holding a sandwich board and a bullhorn, Sandro Canovas stationed himself outside the Marfa Spirit Co. “Sotol es mexicano! Boycott these culture vultures! Don’t support the ladrones,” ...

In Madera, a mountain town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Bienvenido Fernandez pours freshly distilled sotol between two cow horns. He examines the tiny bubbles, or “pearls,” that materialize to ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2018 issue with the headline “West Texas in a Bottle.” One morning this past fall, a FedEx truck pulled up around the back side of a nondescript, ...