May 12, 2025
The world of mezcal is vast, wild, and full of surprises. One fascinating plant that often comes up in agave discussions is the Foxtail Agave. Known botanically as Agave attenuata, this species isn’t typically used for mezcal production—but it plays an important role in agave...
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September 25, 2023
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.…
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June 7, 2023
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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October 31, 2022
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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April 1, 2022
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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December 17, 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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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…
Read More >December 8, 2020
A Sense of Place: As a cook and bartender, I am naturally attracted to smell and taste, sensations of the palate.
Read More >November 17, 2020
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…
Read More >October 22, 2020
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…
Read More >August 26, 2020
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.
Read More >June 1, 2020
Environmental responsibility is one of the central tenets that anchors our impact philosophy.
Read More >April 30, 2020
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…
Read More >March 30, 2020
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…
Read More >November 19, 2019
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…
Read More >September 3, 2019
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.
Read More >April 9, 2019
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…
Read More >April 5, 2019
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…
Read More >April 1, 2019
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…
Read More >December 11, 2018
Access to education and information is a basic human right, one that has been denied or seriously impeded in many Oaxacan communities over time.
Read More >August 27, 2018
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…
Read More >May 16, 2018
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…
Read More >November 7, 2017
Since its founding in 1995, Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal has operated out of the village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca.
Read More >August 7, 2017
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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