Mezcal Experience Mexico City: 3 Bars, 6 Spirits & Cocktail demo
- 2 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Mezcal is the most mythic plant in Mexico. The agave at the bottom of the glass may have grown for thirty years before anyone touched it, and the batch it produced will never be made the same way twice. If you have only had industrial mezcal, you have not had mezcal. Here it is the ancestral kind, made by hand by people with names. The first stop is an old-school mezcalería of the kind still found across the Mexican interior. Three spirits here show you the range of what Mexico distils, and give you the ground to stand on for what comes next. The second is a private tasting room, the most serious room on the route, built by a chef around one of the city's great agave collections. Three mezcals, each from a different plant and a different maker, each paired with one of her moles. This is where the craft shows the magic behind the plant. The last stop is a lively bar where you get hands-on and mix your mezcal cocktail to taste mezcal's full range. An immersive small-group experience.
Inclusions
What's included
- Six Mexican spirits: three at the first bar, three mezcals in the private tasting room
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Small group, English-speaking guide
- Mole pairing with each mezcal, by the chef behind the tasting room
- One mezcal cocktail, mixed by you
- All food and drinks
What's not
- Gratuities
- Transportation
Itinerary
This is a guided Mexican spirits tasting, not a drinking tour. Across three specialist bars in Roma Norte, you'll taste five carefully selected spirits, a pulque-derived spirit from Los Juertes, your choice of snake-bottle sotol or a Guerrero mezcal, and three distinct mezcal expressions at Matuche, before closing with a Mezcal Paloma.
Start with Los Juertes, a spirit distilled from pulque, one of Mexico's oldest drinks. Then choose one: sotol, served from a bottle with a coiled snake inside and made from Dasylirion (not agave), or a mezcal from Guerrero for guests who'd rather stay with agave.
Taste three distinct mezcal expressions side by side, guided through what separates one from another: Máxima, an ensamble from Puebla; Huaxe, crushed with a stone tahona and fermented with wild yeasts in Oaxaca's Mixteca Alta; and Dr. Montesinos, from Agave durangensis. Compare the same mezcal in a clay jícara and in glass.
The tour closes with a Mezcal Paloma shared among the group and a traditional Mexican toast.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 10 travellers
- Operated by
- Sherpa Food Tours
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Mexico City
- Its from-price is 20% below the median of the 180 food tours we list in Mexico City.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 56 of 180.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Mexico City
Mexico City is a vast, high-altitude capital built over the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, rich in museums, murals, markets and outstanding food.
The Zócalo, one of the largest squares in the world, is framed by the Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Palace, where Diego Rivera's murals tell the story of Mexico. Beside them, the excavated Templo Mayor reveals the heart of the Aztec capital, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with its marble exterior and Art Deco interior, stands a short walk west.
Top-ranked sights in Mexico City: Teotihuacán, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Frida Kahlo Museum (Museo Frida Kahlo).
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