Agave azul

Agave, photographs taken in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Photoshoot for ESCAPES magazine, issue #7, July - November 2011, for the featured article on tequila. Agaves are succulent plants of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae. Chiefly Mexican, they occur also in the southern and western United States and in central and tropical South America. The most familiar species is Agave americana, a native of tropical America, the so-called…

agave macroacantha - black-tipped agave

Tequila is produced in one of five Mexican states and made exclusively from the Weber azul agave plant. The entire agave plant is harvested, trimmed, pressed, and distilled to make the final product. Tequila can be bottled directly after distilling for a blanco variety or aged for an añejo variety. Visit Insider's Home & Kitchen Reference library for more stories.

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