I was in sotol country, a hot, barren wasteland of yucca, creosote and mesquite with horizons broken by dramatic mountainous rocky outcrops cutting across the landscape
For the last couple of decades what we understood to be mezcal had very little to do with what the juice was really meant to be.
Sydney-based tequila-preacher Phil Bayly owned the seminal tequila bar, Cafe Pacifico, Sydney, and has drunk…