"Agaves are one of 23 genera of the agavoideae, a subfamily of the Asparagus plant family (asparagaceae)," writes garden ...

Agave is the heart of any bottle of mezcal. When produced in a traditional manner, mezcal is more than just a simple distillation of agave. It reflects generations of focus on these unique and ...

'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera)is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the southeast tip of a large valley in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental is the small Mexican ...

This past May my company Taste Select Repeat, a shopping and education resource for spirits, hosted a tutorial on types of tequila and mezcal. Besides sharing and analyzing pours, we also set the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started ...

The genus Agave encompasses more than 200 species adapted to arid and semi-arid environments across the Americas. These long-lived perennial succulents display remarkable genetic variation, shaped by ...

Tequila can only be made from Blue Weber agave, while mezcal can be made from a variety of different species. Agave is the heart of any bottle of mezcal. When produced in a traditional manner, mezcal ...

MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...