Join Mitch e Amaro and Erstwhile Mezcal in Kansas City, Missouri for a fun, convivial evening of cocktails and mezcal. WHEN: Thursday, June 1, 2023 TIME: 6:00 PM - 10 PM WHERE: Mitch e Amaro, 306 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, MO 64116
Want to taste rare, limited-edition agave spirits and become a confident, informed mezcal connoisseur? Join Gomer's of Kansas for a fun, educational, and FREE evening of tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. Led by Yuan Ji, founder of Erstwhile Mezcal, [...]
Join us at Total Wine & More in Tallahassee, Florida for a mezcal tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. WHEN: Sunday, May 21, 2023 TIME: 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM WHERE: Total Wine & More, Village Commons Shopping Center, [...]
Join us at Total Wine & More in Naples, Florida for a mezcal tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. WHEN: Friday, May 19, 2023 TIME: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM WHERE: Total Wine & More, Promenade at Naples Centre, [...]
Join Little Bear and La Rosa del Bosque in Albuquerque, New Mexico for a fun, convivial evening of cocktails, yakitori and mezcal. WHEN: Thursday, May 4, 2023 TIME: 6:00 PM MDT WHERE: Little Bear Coffee Shop & Wine Bar, 3123 Central Ave NE D, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Join us at Jubilation Wine & Spirits - Albuquerque, New Mexico's premier destination for wine, spirits, and craft beer - for a mezcal tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. Tasting is $20 CASH on the day. Your entrance fee can [...]
Join us at Susan's Fine Wine and Spirits - Santa Fe's premier destination for wine, spirits, and beer - for a free mezcal tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. WHEN: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM [...]
Join us at La Reina - the agave-focused bar and cocktail oasis located inside El Rey Court - for an evening of mezcal tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. Free to attend. Tastings and flights are paid. Must be 21 [...]
Calling Kansas City lovers of mezcal, cocktails, and live music. On Tuesday at 6 pm, May 9, 2023, join us at Tannin for a fun evening tasting of Erstwhile Mezcal while enjoying a live ensemble performance by Beau Bledsoe. Matt Miller, Erstwhile’s National Sales Extraordinaire, will be there to tell you about the families behind [...]
Join us at Lukas Wine & Spirits in South Kansas City, Missouri for a fun, educational, and FREE evening of tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. WHEN: Friday, April 7, 2023 TIME: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT WHERE: Lukas [...]
Join us at Spirit Hub in Lincoln Park, Chicago for a fun, educational, and FREE evening of tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. WHEN: Saturday, April 22, 2023 TIME: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT WHERE: Spirit Hub, 2342 N [...]
Want to taste rare, limited-edition agave spirits and become a confident, informed mezcal connoisseur? Join Grand Spirits Bottle Shop in St. Louis, Missouri for a fun, educational, and FREE evening of tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. Led by Yuan [...]
Want to taste rare, limited-edition agave spirits and become a confident, informed mezcal connoisseur? Join Mike's Wine and Spirits in Kansas City, Missouri for a fun, educational, and FREE evening of tasting and learning about different agave varietals, traditional mezcal production, and small producer families who keep this craft alive in Mexico. Led by Yuan [...]
Come sample Erstwhile Mezcal's new mezcal releases at Mexico in a Bottle in Phoenix, Arizona! Join us as we celebrate Mexican craft spirits, wine, food, music and art at Walter Studios. This event is wildly popular and always sells out. Don't wait. Get your ticket here today. When: Sunday, September 18, 2022, 4:00 PM – [...]
Come sample Erstwhile Mezcal's new mezcal releases at Mexico in a Bottle in Denver, Colorado! Join us as we celebrate Mexican craft spirits, wine, food, music and art at The Hangar at Stanley. This event is wildly popular and always sells out. Don't wait. Get your ticket today. Date and time Sun, May 15, 2022 [...]
On Friday, October 1, 2021, please join Erstwhile Mezcal for Happy Hour at Tahona Bar in San Diego, followed by an intimate presentation and mezcal tasting of several rare small-batch expressions. Tahona Bar’s tasting room is devoted to mezcal education, a mission shared by both Tahona Bar and Erstwhile Mezcal. It is a place [...]
On Thursday 8 pm PT | 11 pm ET, September 24, 2020, please join Erstwhile Mezcal and Tahona Bar Tasting Room in San Diego, California for an intimate presentation and virtual mezcal tasting of three rare small-batch expressions -- Arroqueño, Tobalá, and Henequén- from mezcal producers Hortensia & Juan Hernández in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca Tahona [...]
Welcome to the third installation of Erstwhile Mezcal’s blog series, in which I share my firsthand experiences and takeaways on Why Is Mezcal So Dam$ Expensive in the United States. In Part I of this blog series, I observed that for Erstwhile’s first shipment of mezcals from Oaxaca to the United States, our production costs [...]
Join us on Thursday 6 PM Pacific time / 9 PM East Coast time, May 7, 2020 for a Mezcal (Virtual) Tasting Party, hosted by Suzanne Henricksen and Evan Rothrock at the Crafty Cask. Suzanne and Evan launched this series of virtual tastings to support craft wine & spirits makers and small craft businesses from around [...]
Rey Arellanes Angeles, a skilled producer of ancestral mezcal, runs a tight ship in Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca. While Erstwhile Mezcal’s current lineup does not feature any mezcal made by Rey, my co-founder Kevin and I are his fans in our personal capacity as mezcal enthusiasts. We have many of Rey’s distillations in our personal [...]
On Wednesday 6-9 PM, February 26, 2020, join Erstwhile Mezcal and D.O.C. Wine Shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a FREE MEZCAL TASTING + MEZCAL EDUCATION Q&A. Drop by for a chance to sample a rare Henequén mezcal — first of its kind in the US market, made from an agave native to the Yucatán — [...]
On Friday 5:30-8:30 PM, February 28, 2020, join Erstwhile Mezcal and Prospect Wine Shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn for a FREE MEZCAL TASTING + MEZCAL EDUCATION Q&A. Drop by for a chance to sample a rare Henequén mezcal — first of its kind in the US market, made from an agave native to the Yucatán [...]
If you were a Mezcal (or agave plant), would you be a Tepeztate or Tobalá? Come discover for yourself. On Saturday 5-8 PM, February 22, 2020, join Erstwhile Mezcal and Yolo Wine & Spirits for a FREE MEZCAL TASTING + MEZCAL EDUCATION Q&A. Yolo Wine & Spirits 639 Broadway New York, NY 10012 This event [...]
Welcome to the second installation of Erstwhile Mezcal’s blog series, in which I share my firsthand experiences and takeaways on Why Is Mezcal So Dam$ Expensive in the United States. In a previous post, I observed that for Erstwhile’s first shipment of mezcals from Oaxaca to the United States, our production costs account for only [...]
On Thursday, March 5, 2020, please join Erstwhile Mezcal at Tahona Bar Tasting Room in San Diego, California for an intimate presentation and mezcal tasting of several rare small-batch expressions. Tahona Bar’s tasting room is devoted to mezcal education, a mission shared by both Tahona Bar and Erstwhile Mezcal. It is a place of [...]
Ever wonder why some mezcals cost less than $50 per bottle, and others close to $150 and more? Are the expensive bottles better? And if so, in what ways? Before entering the mezcal industry, I had these same questions. That was before my co-founder and I set forth to start Erstwhile Mezcal, an importing company, [...]
Erstwhile Mezcal and the Princeton Club of New York are hosting an intimate evening of mezcal tasting, mezcal cocktails, and spirited conversations. This is a PRIVATE EVENT for Club members and their guests. […]
This Friday 6-8 PM, August 16, join us at Binny’s Lincoln Park location (1720 N Marcey St, Chicago) for a MEZCAL SEMINAR with Yuan Ji, co-founder of Erstwhile Mezcal, on the social and production complexities of Mezcal. Ticket link: http://bit.ly/Binnys_Mezcal_Seminar_August_16 Seating is limited. Grab your seat today before we run out of space! What topics [...]
Hello Chicago! Ever wondered, Why Is Mezcal So Dam$ Expensive? We know we have. Let’s follow the money. Join us Wednesday 7-8:30 PM, August 14 at Moreno's Liquors for a mezcal seminar on this exact topic. We'll be sampling beautiful mezcals from Oaxaca too. Click here for ticket link. Featured image: from an [...]
Join us at Encima Mezcal Bar, in the heart of Rittenhouse Square, for a mezcal-fueled evening of conviviality, delicious bites, and spirited conversations! Only 30 seats available. Get your ticket here today before event sells out. We are preparing a feast for you. You choose your adventure: juicy tacos, zesty elotes, or piping hot tamales, and [...]
