The Jimadores pick the agaves at 7-9 years of age and with a sugar content of 23-28%.

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And there are more mescals, which are the liquors distilled from different agaves.

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Produced from wild agaves harvested at high altitude, it is a seductively dislocating, subtly knit but extreme stream of sensory information.

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These are single-microbatch mezcals distilled from painstakingly gathered wild agaves.

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New agaves have to be planted individually every season.

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Mescals, for example, are made from different agaves.

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