Multi-Day / Weeklong Comprehensive Mezcal / Culinary / Cultural Excursions
Highly customizable, educational tours to learn about food and drink in Oaxaca over a series of day trips.
Multi-Day Options
Our comprehensive mezcal excursion packages run anywhere from two or three days, to a week. Often when we host groups of bartenders and restaurant owners, for example, they are unable to get away from work for any longer than a few days, and so they want as much as possible jammed into a short period of time – and of course we get it all done for them. Members of these groups often work hard, and play hard; hence the days in Oaxaca are long, and their nights even longer, the latter at times involving visiting mezcalerias, tasting rooms, and bars.
But we also accommodate those wanting just a second day of mezcal touring with us, or have been out previously and want something more and something different. Accordingly, if you have explored clay and copper distillation methods for a day, previously, you might be interested in another day, 100% clay pot distillation visiting several small facilities / palenques, some much more rustic than see before. Yes, such palenques indeed exist. Or, a day visiting a village where the palenqueros distill using a refrescadera which distills twice, but with only one pass-through. In this case, since we would be spending the entire day in a single village, we would make arrangements for the wife of one of the palenqueros to prepare a luncheon for the couple or group. This experience tends to be one of our most unique offerings.
But we also accommodate those wanting just a second day of mezcal touring with us, or have been out previously and want something more and something different. Accordingly, if you have explored clay and copper distillation methods for a day, previously, you might be interested in another day, 100% clay pot distillation visiting several small facilities / palenques, some much more rustic than see before. Yes, such palenques indeed exist. Or, a day visiting a village where the palenqueros distill using a refrescadera which distills twice, but with only one pass-through. In this case, since we would be spending the entire day in a single village, we would make arrangements for the wife of one of the palenqueros to prepare a luncheon for the couple or group. This experience tends to be one of our most unique offerings.
Mezcaloteca Tasting Room in Oaxaca
But we do much more than fuel the fire of this particular crowd. We also arrange more relaxed vacation packages for groups of friends or extended families wanting to experience all that Oaxaca has to offer. These aficionados tend to have a keen interest in both learning about mezcal production including distillery types, and understanding Oaxaca’s gastronomic greatness. We achieve these objectives through encouraging our clients to participate in a broad diversity of arranged experiences over the course of a week or so: pairing craft beer and / or mezcal with regional cuisine (and even chocolate); cooking with pulque, mezcal or Mexican beer in the course of attending a class with an internationally renowned Oaxacan chef; dining in both high end acclaimed restaurants (i.e. Casa Oaxaca), as well as rural haunts where all fare is cooked in iron pots and over clay comals, in both cases over firewood.
El Tigre, A Favorite Rural Haunt
If it’s a first trip to Oaxaca, or a return because they were only able to scratch the surface on a prior visit, often our clients want more than a food and drink experience. In such cases we work with tour guides and other experts so as to facilitate visits to ruins, craft villages, natural wonders and colonial architectural sights including Dominican churches. But the emphasis remains on Oaxaca’s iconic spirit, mezcal, and to the extent desired by our clients other traditional Mexican drinks and cuisine.
And below are three photos taken at a pairing afternoon session at the conclusion of amezcal educational tour, in April 2025, of craft beer with regional Oaxacan cuisine, the totality consisting of a plate of chapulines, fried garlic and chicatana; quesillo squash blossom and salchicha oaxaqueña totopos; vegetarian ceviche, rabbit with fine herbs, shrimp and pineapple, and strawberry / blackberry cheesecake.
