"“I had this incredible, hands-on opportunity to go into the blue agave fields in Jalisco with Ivàn and learn first-hand about the plant and how important it is to Mexico.” — Lewis ...

Tequila is a distilled spirit produced from the juice of the blue agave, a plant native to Mexico. The agave has stiff, ...

The main road from Guadalajara, Mexico’s second city, to the town of Tequila is lined with agave. Row upon row of the plant stretches in a sea of blue-grey, up into the foothills of Jalisco’s ...

The temperature in Makawao also makes for “a much better growing environment” and produces bigger blue agave plants than in Mexico, Turner said. “There’s a certain temperature range that ...