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Friday, January 10, 2014

TEQUILA JALISCO, CRADLE OF AGAVE

In Tequila feel the warmth , the friendliness , open and direct their inhabitants. It is a small town that can be toured on foot and then visit factories like Sauza or the Brotherhood . That the process of making the drink is known , and after a walk through the fields of agave is a final reward : the tasting. Another essential stop is the third most popular brand , the Crow , with its Hacienda La Rojeña and its famous restaurant La Fonda Cholula . In addition to participating in any activity or entertainment that the José
Cuervo Foundation maintains within its social and cultural project ,

visitors can also wander on your own way to San Martín de las Cañas, a path surrounded by agaves , which is reached by the free road to Nogales. The Indians of the region discovered accidentally drink , related to the agave plant with the goddess Mayahuel and gave mystical attributes . With the arrival of the Spaniards, added to drinking the last process : distillation in stills brought from Arabia.