As an M.B.A. student at the University of Texas at Austin, a former marine pilot named Brent Looby befriended two other veterans, Judson Kauffman and Ryan Campbell. When the men were tasked with ...

In Madera, a mountain town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Bienvenido Fernandez pours freshly distilled sotol between two cow horns. He examines the tiny bubbles, or “pearls,” that materialize to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Claudia Alarcón covers food, drinks and travel in places near and far. In recognition of Desert Door’s contribution to the area’s ...

Americans drank more than 100 million liters of tequila in 2010. It's no wonder then, that a little-known spirit from Mexico is trying to make its name in the United States. Introducing Sotol — a ...

Sotol is a relatively unknown spirit in Northeast Ohio. It is made with sotol plants from the genus – dasylirion – making it’s a distant cousin, perhaps an ancestor, of agave. These plants grow in the ...

julio 8, 2024 10:24 a. m. Professor José Luis Palma works on sotol crops at the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in the municipality of Delicias.

Although the legal pathway to make Texas sotol was now open, critics argued that its production amounted to colonialism and cultural appropriation. They pointed out that, although the sotol plant ...