Schedule: 9am-6pm, *Not available Sundays

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (1 hour each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Big breakfast of at our favorite roadside comedor, which only uses wood fire for cooking and specializes in local corn tortillas

• Tour of 2 mezcal palenques producing clay pot distilled mezcal

  • Tour of an agave nursery or agave fields and palenque which produces small batch clay pot distilled mezcal. We learn about the mezcal production process from seed to bottle with the family who makes this small batch mezcal. The palenque is owned and operated by a family that has been making mezcal for 4 generations and has a focus on sustainable agriculture and maintaining local traditional production methods.

  • Visit to a second palenque in the home of a traditional mezcal producer working with his sons to make micro batches of mezcal minero for local consumption

• Tasting of mezcal made on site at each palenque. We have the opportunity to taste upwards of 25 different mezcals

• A chance to purchase mezcal directly from the producers (price not included), our help packing it for travel

• Lunch at Ocotlán market of regional dishes such as mole, empanadas de amarillo, tejate, and enchiladas

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to community library