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Mezcal Minero (1 palenque)

Schedule: 9am-4pm, not available on Sundays

Cost per person: $155 USD/2,800 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable and safe transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (1 hour each way)

  • Breakfast en route of tamales and fresh fruit

  • Tour of an agave nursery and artisanal palenque, which produces small batch clay pot distilled mezcal where we learn about the mezcal production process from seed to bottle. The palenque is owned and operated by family that has been making mezcal for 4 generations and currently produces mezcal for national and international sale committing to sustainable agriculture and giving back to the community

  • Tasting of Minero mezcal made on site

  • 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

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to community library

 

Mezcal Minero (2 palenques)

Schedule: 9am-6pm, not available on Sundays

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (1 hour each way)

  • Big breakfast of at our favorite roadside comedor, which only uses wood fire for cooking

  • Tour of 2 mezcal palenques producing clay pot distilled mezcal

    • Tour of an agave nursery and artisanal palenque, which produces small batch clay pot distilled mezcal where we learn about the mezcal production process from seed to bottle. The palenque is owned and operated by family that has been making mezcal for 4 generations and currently produces mezcal for national and international sale committing to sustainable agriculture and giving back to the community

    • 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 loca consumption

  • Tasting of mezcal made on site at each palenque

  • 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

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to community library

Miahuatlán

Miahuatlán Mezcal

Schedule: 9am-7pm, not available on Mondays

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (2 hours each way)

  • Big breakfast of at our favorite roadside comedor, which only uses wood fire for cooking

  • Visit to 2 traditional mezcal palenques, learning about the process and history of the mezcal of the region directly from the producing families who have been distilling their mezcal in copper for 4 generations

  • Learn about and see the biodiversity of different types of agaves used to make mezcal

  • Tasting of traditional mezcal made on site

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

  • Farm to table lunch of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to future community youth center

Miahuatlán Market & Mezcal  

Schedule: 9am-7pm, Monday only

Cost per person: $185 USD/3,330 MXN (Open Outing 2-6 participants)

Includes:

  • Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

  • Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (2 hours each way)

  • Big breakfast of at our favorite roadside comedor, which only uses wood fire for cooking

  • Tour of weekly regional market, samples of local cuisine such as palo de chile, hoja de leon, plátano perón, and pan serrano

  • Visit to a traditional mezcal palenque, learning about the process and history of the mezcal of the region directly from the producing families who have been distilling their mezcal in copper for 4 generations

  • Learn about and see the biodiversity of different types of agaves used to make mezcal

  • Tasting of traditional mezcal made on site

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

  • Farm to table unch of local delicacies prepared by a cocinera tradicional

  • Drinking water and light snacks

  • Donation to future community youth center