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- sí. - to close up the holes, im gonna put it there. - mm-hmm. - [speaking spanish] - [laughs] - [speaking spanish] - yay! - the hearts are then covered with crushed agave husk for the cooking process, which can take up to five days. - then youre gonna put some soil on top. - i love seeing her boss everybody around. - sí. - shes like, "youre doing it wrong." - [laughing] sí. i feel like ive slipped back in time. oaxacan families have been making alcohol from roasted agave for centuries, but ...

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[surf rock music] so this is a very important part of the process. this is where mezcal takes the smoky qualities and flavors and aromas. - mm-hmm. - and this is what differentiates mezcal from tequila, because tequila is not using an earth oven to cook the agave. its using machinery to cook it. - mezcal maestra doña bertas earth oven is lined with rocks and heated by firewood. the agave hearts roast slowly, releasing their natural sugars and develop that distinctive smoky flavor. and how old i...

Is pretty cool. hot, arid plains are the perfect breeding ground, but you got to be patient. some agave can take over 30 years to mature. hola. connoisseur sylvia philion champions traditional producers. a mezcal authority, three years ago, she discovered doña bertas artisanal spirit. - what doña berta is doing now-- how we say it in oaxaca... shaving the agave. - and what type is this one? both: cuishe. - this is a species that you can only find in oaxaca, actually. - okay. - what shes doing ...

[upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - oh, look at these agave. oaxaca is the land of the agave plant. and where theres agave, theres mezcal-- the smoky liquor this region is famed for. ive always been more of a tequila girl myself, so im off to a palenque, an agave farm, for a little mezcal education in san baltazar chichicapam. and im excited because this palenque has a maestra mezcalera, which is a female master of mezcal. and its very rare in the mezcal industry. tequila is only made from blue agave, whil...

So, to see the field out here with all this diverse agave is pretty cool. hot, arid plains are the perfect breeding ground, but you got to be patient. some agave can take over 30 years to mature. hola. connoisseur sylvia philion champions traditional producers. a mezcal authority, three years ago, she discovered doña bertas artisanal spirit. - what doña berta is doing now-- how we say it in oaxaca... shaving the agave. - and what type is this one? both: cuishe. - this is a species that you can...

[laughter] she doesnt trust me to put in a bigger one. - [chuckles] - sí. - to close up the holes, im gonna put it there. - mm-hmm. - [speaking spanish] - [laughs] - [speaking spanish] - yay! - the hearts are then covered with crushed agave husk for the cooking process, which can take up to five days. - then youre gonna put some soil on top. - i love seeing her boss everybody around. - sí. - shes like, "youre doing it wrong." - [laughing] sí. i feel like ive slipped back in time.

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