AGAVE TIME
A special Zoom tasting featuring vintage batches, glass aging and other explorations in mezcal chronology.
Sunday, Oct. 11 / 5 pm EST / $100 including FedEx delivery
One of the most remarkable things about traditional agave spirits is the time that goes into each bottle. Plants grow for a half-decade or more so that days or weeks of roasting and fermentation may shape flavors and aromas, which evolve further if the final result is rested in glass. Most important of all is how biological and physical time collide with human time, from work hours to life spans. What you taste today may result from technologies used for centuries. A mature agave may be as old as a woman or man.
It is with all of this in mind that we bring you AGAVE TIME: a tasting of six unique agave spirits from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí and Guerrero.
Aside from representing a diversity of flavors and regions, each has been specially chosen to illustrate one or more ways that the passage of time can influence what’s in the bottle. You can expect to try vintage batches and other rarities, a vast majority of them collected during our pre-pandemic travels in Mexico.
MORE DETAILS
The AGAVE TIME experience will cost $100 for one person or $160 for two, and includes:
the small-group Zoom tasting on Oct. 11, about two hours and appropriate for all experience levels
a curated tasting set featuring pours of six traditional agave spirits (roughly an ounce of each per person — enough to save some for after the tasting, to revisit or share with friends)
a classic veladora-style mezcal glass for each guest
a limited-edition print featuring art by Natalie Labarre
a link to one of our eclectic mezcal-room Spotify playlists
delivery of your tasting set via FedEx Express (or hand delivery/pickup in NYC)
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
To sign up for Sunday’s event and receive your tasting set, please fill out the form below, and we’ll send you a confirmation email to finalize things and coordinate payment via Venmo or PayPal.
Quantities are limited, and the tasting may fill up — we typically cap our Zoom tastings at around a dozen guests, to keep things personal and interactive. (We’re also open to creating custom private events, if you’d like to organize an experience like this one for friends or colleagues.)
Feel free to email us with any questions or requests: hello@mezcal.nyc. Thanks for reading, and looking forward to talking mezcal and sharing some spirits with you!
Complete the following form to sign up for AGAVE TIME and join us on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 5 pm Eastern, for a special Zoom tasting of six traditional agave spirits!