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Quick Cinco de Mayo Mezcal Moment

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Mescal comes from the word >> [music] >> mescal baked agave. What's most fascinating about mescal to define production like areas that they showed that they made mescal 2,500 years ago. That's a long time. All tequila are mescal but not all mescals are tequila. So for example, tequila has to be made from 100% blue agave and the way they made it it has to be steamed in a hot oven. Maybe I'll show you we'll go back to Mexico to see more about it. So for now back to mescal. There is a few hundred different agaves and with mescal there is so many different ways. I would call mescal the hip tequila. You could do whatever you want with it and it has [music] that beautiful smoky nose to it. I just love when you smell this. It's pouring raining outside but it's hot in the middle of the summer. How do they make it that it smells so smoky and beautiful? They also take the heart of agave but they don't steam it. They bury it and then they smoke it with wood. Now I know why it smells so good. So now we pour. This is come out for no kinds. Feliz Navidad. Tune into kosher.com to find out more.