Mezcal Maniac
Jonathan LockwoodDiscovering, Exploring for and Drinking Mezcal with Jonathan Lockwood
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Alto Country
For five years I’ve been writing about mezcal, and for about that long I’ve heard people describe me as a mezcal expert. Always funny. As I’ve said before, if you just keep drinking long enough, sooner or later you’re an “expert.”
But afte...
The Mezcaleros of La Compañía Don't Mess Around
Several years ago I didn’t always need to go to Oaxaca for my mezcal. I had Job. He’d often send me stuff he figured I’d like. I’d taste it and place an order with him. He’d return to the palenque, grab it and ship it to me via Castores, on...
My Venencia Journey
This carrizo — a bamboo-like grass that grows wild throughout Mexico — came out of the yard a week or so ago in great tangled armfuls, and I stood there looking at it thinking: I could be in the venencia business!
A mezcal venencia. It all...
Still in Logoche
I don’t expect every Mezcal Maniac keeps up with my stories here, but last year’s Logoche visit was chronicled in this piece called…
You can read it above, or just let me sum it up this way…
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2026 Oaxacan Adventure: the Logoche Strategy
For several years we’ve started our Oaxacan adventure with Logoche, that gloriously treacherous mezcal heartland that I love the way you love something that has repeatedly tried to kill you. And we’ve always begun with Hermogenes Vázquez Ga...
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Jonathan Lockwood is an American Voice Talent living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He is also a Mezcal Lover, Explorer and Collector. With a wide variety of artesanal mezcal in his cellar, he loves to have people over for tastings.
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