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Health Care Brigades for Del Maguey Villages

Initiative In May 2023, Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal partnered with the organization Grower´s First, and their volunteer network of physicians and dentists from the organization Yu´u Ba´a. In Sto. Domingo Albarradas, aside from offering medical and dental services, the Grower´s First volunteers were trained...

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Upcycling Mezcal By-Products: Traditional Building Workshops in Santa Catarina Minas

Adobe and Rammed Earth In October 2022 and March 2023, Del Maguey held two construction workshops in the palenque of Luis Carlos Vasquez and his son Luis Carlos Martinez in…

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Education Assistance in Oaxaca

Computer and Tablet Donations: Over the years Del Maguey Singe Village Mezcal has run an ongoing donation program for the communities of our Zapotec and Mixtec family of producers to…

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Del Maguey Wild Agave Project Update

Del Maguey’s wild agave project began years ago with a small nursery in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, that produced a few hundred Tobala, Tepextate, and Espadin plants from seed with…

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Del Maguey Beekeeping Update 2021

Beekeeping in Rancho Las Milpas: Del Maguey’s beekeeping team continued its work this year in Rancho Las Milpas. The prospect of beekeeping has been welcomed warmly by our partner producer…

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Del Maguey Reforestation Progress 2020-21

Despite the fact that the pandemic shut down access to some of the villages we work in for most of 2020, towards the end of the year, and with much…

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Smoke In The Valley: Reflections of a Mezcal Apprentice — Part 1

A Sense of Place: As a cook and bartender, I am naturally attracted to smell and taste, sensations of the palate.

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Smoke in the Valley: Reflections of a Mezcal Apprentice — Part 2

As Gabe and I drove into San Luis del Rio on a long dirt road we were surrounded by the staggered mountains, lined with a patchwork of wild and cultivated…

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Smoke in the Valley: Reflections of a Mezcal Apprentice — Part 3

Finding My Rhythm: I slept in Marcos’ 2nd floor flat above the kitchen in an empty room on a petate, or a woven palm mat with a rolled poncho I…

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Del Maguey Apiculture Program

In our headquarter village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Del Maguey helps support the local ecology of flowering plants, including a wide spectrum of wild agave, through beekeeping.

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Del Maguey Agave Sustainability Management Programs

Environmental responsibility is one of the central tenets that anchors our impact philosophy.

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Zapotec Talking Dictionary

Oaxaca, Mexico has a rich linguistic and cultural diversity, with 16 different indigenous language families and more than 50 different languages, a large part of which is at serious risk…

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Oaxaca Impact-Limited Edition Bottling Projects

Limited Edition Bottle – Del Maguey Chichicapa Boca del Cerro In the spring of 2005, Del Maguey founder Ron Cooper and local farmers planted a hectare of young espadin in…

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Reforestation Efforts in Oaxaca

Deforestation: Since 2015, increased rates of deforestation have been reported in Oaxaca, rates generally attributed to 1) Mining 2) Agriculture 3) Livestock 4) Forest fires 5) Plagues and 6) Illegal…

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Increased Food Security in Del Maguey Producing Villages

Del Maguey has taken the lead with Heifer Project International and The Pernod Ricard Foundation to extend a program named Replicando Oportunidades (Replicating Opportunities) in Del Maguey producing villages.

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The Evolution of Vida — Part 1

We at Del Maguey are deeply honored and humbled by the overwhelming acceptance and appreciation of Mezcal VIDA by the trade since we first brought this liquid art to the…

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The Evolution of Vida — Part 2

Scaling Up While Preserving Tradition: In November of 2016 Del Maguey broke ground on a project to scale Paciano Cruz Nolasco’s palenque in San Luis del Rio without compromising the…

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The Evolution of Vida — Part 3

New Land Creation Project: Del Maguey needed to implement a different system in San Luis del Rio due to its remote location and limitations on the banks of the Rio…

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Communications Tower in San Luis del Rio, Oaxaca

Access to education and information is a basic human right, one that has been denied or seriously impeded in many Oaxacan communities over time.

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Preserving Del Maguey Traditions

In April, 2017, the Consejo Regulador de Mezcal (CRM) implemented the first revision of the Norma Oficial Mexicana 070 (NOM 070) since the inception of the Denomination of Origin of…

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Increased Access to Potable Water In Teotitlan Del Valle, Oaxaca

Del Maguey Donates a Pipa/Water Tanker Truck Providing increased access to potable water in partner communities is one of Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal’s driving principles. In many of the…

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Teotitlan del Valle

Since its founding in 1995, Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal has operated out of the village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca.

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Del Maguey is Friendly to Bats

Biological diversity is crucial to a successful future for agave species. There are two different ways in which agave can reproduce. The first is through hijuelos, or clonal shoots, that…

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