![]() ![]() It was variously called mezcal brandy, agave wine, mezcal tequila and finally simply tequila – appropriately named after Tequila, a small town in a valley in Jalisco state, Mexico. Mezcal wine – tequila's grandparent – was first produced only a few decades after the Conquest that brought the Spaniards to the New World in 1521. The history of tequila's development from the traditional beverage to the modern spirit parallel's the often turbulent, chaotic growth of Mexico herself - and is equally obscure to outsiders. Its roots reach back into pre-Hispanic times when the natives fermented sap from the local maguey plants into a drink called pulque. ![]() As North America's first distilled drink, and its first commercially-produced alcohol, tequila's history is long and rich. ![]()
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