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Real editorial from the world of Eléctrico — Oaxaca, mezcal craft, food, the women of mezcal, music, and everything that surrounds the spirit.
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Oaxaca is a land of color and celebration, and Eléctrico Mezcal plays its own integral role in the festivals and traditions of this beautiful country. In tribute to its homeland and heritage, Eléctrico’s family created the short film “Festival Oaxaca,” which has been gathering awards and accolades across the USA.
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A story rooted in Flor de Muertos, marigolds, and the flower of life, connecting Oaxacan ritual color and meaning to the season of the dead.
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Eléctrico’s Omar, Isabel, and Nev paid a visit to one of the Eléctrico community’s favorite eateries on their way to Mitla, the Zapotec City of the Dead.
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A seasonal field note from Oaxaca about one of Mexico’s greatest festivals and the difference between local ritual memory and imported costume culture.
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A post about the mystical copal tree, its place in the valley where Eléctrico is made, and its role in Oaxacan material and spiritual life.
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An actual house-process story about why local water matters and how the aquifer beneath San Baltazar shapes the mezcal in the bottle.
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A celebration of Zapotec heritage, language, and the valley culture that gave Eléctrico Mezcal its roots and context.
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A post that makes the music-and-mezcal bridge explicit, showing why Kathleen Blackwell and Manuel Antonio Cirino’s collaboration works across very different artforms.
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A closer look at the white-hot stones used in the horno, where the piñas roast under earth and sacking for three days.
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An architectural and material story about the green stone that colors so much of Oaxaca City and deepens the archive’s sense of place.
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An archive entry centered on Isabel, women of mezcal, and solidarity work across Oaxaca.
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A food story from the palenque, focused on Eugenia’s cooking and the everyday life around the mezcalero family.
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Maestro Cirino’s three children — Jackie, Keila, and Wilber — chose to be baptized, and the whole Eléctrico family gathered to celebrate.
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Omar and Isabel brought Eléctrico Mezcal to Oaxaca’s 90th Guelaguetza fiesta, honoring Centeōtl, the goddess of maize.
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Agave or Maguey? We unpack the words behind the plant at the heart of Eléctrico Mezcal — and the dozens of things it gives us.
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A delivery of firewood arrives humming: a rare stingless meliponid bee colony, and Cirino’s plan to help it survive.
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The name Oaxaca traces to the guaje bean tree — and guaje verde still flavors the recipes you sip Eléctrico alongside.
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Yes, Eléctrico makes great cocktails — but pair it gently with the fruits of Oaxaca, and let the mezcal lead.
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Across three generations, Eléctrico’s maestros have stewarded the land around San Baltazar — Cipriano taught Cirino how.
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Corn was first cooked just miles from the Eléctrico palenque. In Oaxaca it remains sacred — and so does mezcal.
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Dena Chagoya and Las Mujeres del Mezcal are building the first certified tasting protocol for mezcal.
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Before mezcal, there was music — Kathleen’s recording sessions in Oaxaca’s Teatro Macedonio Alcalá that led to Eléctrico.
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An 18th-century pipe organ in Tlacolula drew Kathleen to Oaxaca — and to the mezcal that became Eléctrico.
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A 450lb espadín piña, a machete, and El Rojito: one harvest and the magueys Cirino loves to experiment with.
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Cirino reads the pearls — perlas — streaming from a cane to judge the ABV of every batch by eye.
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Marfil, the Criollo mare who pulls the tahona — strong, smart, steady, and always hungry.
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Whisky needs the barrel. Eléctrico doesn’t — our matured mezcals age slowly in glass, never wood.
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Great mezcal isn’t about heavy smoke. Cirino roasts on white-hot stones for a clean taste and a clear head.
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Eléctrico’s ‘Distilled With’ releases add nothing after distillation — the flavor comes from the still itself.
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When salesmen came to mechanize San Baltazar’s palenques, Cirino said no. Years on, the machines sit under tarps.
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Eugenia, the madre of Eléctrico — love at first sight, eight years apart, and the partnership that built the palenque.
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