Unlike agave-based spirits, sotol is made from a group of plants in the dasylirion genus, which dot the Chihuahuan Desert and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango.

Sotol is a relatively unknown spirit in Northeast Ohio. It is made with sotol plants from the genus – dasylirion – making it’s a distant cousin, perhaps an ancestor, of agave.

Sotol is often spoken of alongside the agave-based spirits tequila and mezcal, but it’s made from a different plant. The source of the earthy liquor is the desert spoon, or common sotol, a ...

Sotol is an alcoholic beverage made for centuries from the Dasylirion plant native to the Chihuahua Desert of Mexico that looks like a large, spiked sea urchin or the yucca plant.

Today, it’s distilled and, while sotol draws comparisons to tequila and mezcal, it’s made from plants in the dasylirion genus rather than agave. Cocktail connoisseurs in Denver love sotol for ...

One of the main sotol research centers is the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH). At this pioneering center, the plant was domesticated ...

Under the sweltering sun, a "jimador" uses an ax to cut the thorny leaves of a plant weighing almost 40 kilos in the town of Delicias, in the northern state of Chihuahua. From it, sotol, the new ...

One of the main sotol research centers is the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH). At this pioneering center, the plant was domesticated ...