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Mezcal

Family
Single-distillate spirit
Raw materials
Agave
Place of origin
Oaxaca, Mexico
Location map: the indicative position of Mezcal, with no outline. Scale: 250 km. 250 km
Indicative marker — a point, and nothing more Indicative position — no outline is loaded

Distillate of cooked agaves, often in an earth oven, following traditional Mexican methods. A far wider family of agaves than tequila.

The thing to remember

Cooking in a stone pit oven gives the characteristic smoky note.

Terroirs and geographical indications

The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.

  • Mezcal National designation of origin, outside the Union register · Mexico

Sources and validation

Sources of the corpus
Names and statuses: eAmbrosia, the official register of geographical indications of the European Union. Geometries: INAO, Délimitation des aires géographiques des SIQO (27/07/2026), Licence Ouverte v2.0, reprojected to WGS84.
Corpus updated on
1 August 2026
Validation
Seed entry Corpus under construction. Each entry is checked and sourced before validation by the future scholarly board. Protection status and mode of location are carried by each entry: an area delimited by a product specification and a reference-town point do not carry the same weight.

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