And as luck would have it, Patrón invited me to visit its distillery in Jalisco ... process. Agave is grown by farmers who are often in contract with specific brands. The farms must register ...

In the sun-drenched highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, jimadores (artisanal agave farmers) still hand-harvest and ferment agave—a practice dating back thousands of years. Today, though, some of the ...