Tasting #2 - Sonoran Local Agave Spirits
February 11
Some of the most important agave landscapes in the Southwest are in Tucson's backyard. Tumamoc Hill has a 1,500 year old Hohokam agave field at its base. This is a site where people modified the landscape in subtle yet transformational ways to capture the rain and transform it into a field of thousands of plants, cared for by generations for hundreds of years. We will also learn how Sonora has an agave culture all its own that stretches from desert flats to the deep canyons of the Sierra Madre. Bacanora is just the beginning, the diversity of species and distillate styles is as multiplicitous as the regions mountains. Agave culture is all around us, join us to see what we mean.
Featuring:
Jesús Garcia, Education Specialist, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Agave Spirits:
- Mazot Bacanora Blanco
- La Higuera Sotol
- Masparillo Mezcal