THE TERRIOR
100 kilometers south of Oaxaca, Mexico along the Pan American Highway, and then another 20 km on a winding dirt road brings you to the small village of San Luis Del Rio. It’s here in this pueblo of 200 people, at an elevation of 8,000 feet, where the agave is grown and the spirit is distilled. It is a narrow, hot valley, with steep slopes full of the espadin agave (the genetic mother to the blue agave). The Rio Hormiga Colorada (Red Ant River) flows through it.