• Outside the town of Ixcatlán, in Oaxaca, Mexico, a mezcalero travels to a remote valley to harvest Tobalá agave. He'll return to his palenque and bake the piñas in an horno, ferment the baked piñas, and distill the tepache to produce mezcal.
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  • Horno and the stars
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  • Mezcalero in Oaxaca preparing to bake hearts of agave.
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