Students encounter the old jimador: A visit to Tres Mujeres Tequila and La Toma Valley
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- Published on Friday, 15 March 2013 11:31
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Once again I had the pleasure of spending a day exploring the wonders of Western Mexico with students from the Waldorf School de Guadalajara. This time, the destination was La Toma Balneario where several room-temperature, spring-fed waterfalls cascade into swimming pools overlooking the deep, picturesque canyon alongside the town of Tequila.
This gorgeous site is a mere hour’s drive from Guadalajara, so we added to our itinerary a visit to Tres Mujeres Tequila Distillery, conveniently located alongside the “libre” highway to Tequila and Nogales.
Five hundred meters before the distillery, there’s a little mirador on the left (west) side of the road offering you a perfect perspective for viewing the Tequila Volcano looming overhead, surrounded by a blue-green “sea” of agaves tequilana weber. Signs in Spanish and English describe the volcano and its history.
Next we pulled into Tres Mujeres where we were lucky enough catch Don Rafael, a now retired jimador who knows absolutely everything about tequila-making and immediately offered to share his knowledge with the eleven inquisitive young minds I was accompanying.
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