Tequila, like its cousin, mezcal, is made from the agave plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooking with Tequila: Mexico's National Drink Moves Into The Kitchen, part 1] Reference

Similar to the citrus mezcal is cedrón, a local herb producing a pleasant lime-like aroma.    From Wordnik.com.  [A connoisseur's guide to mezcal] Reference

Tradition dictates that once the oven and its contents are sealed for baking, a bottle of mezcal is placed within the hill of earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBQ Goat In Oaxaca: The Pomp, Ceremony And Tradition] Reference

After several minutes, we prop ourselves up with pillows, and a tray with cups of lemongrass tea and glasses of mezcal is placed before us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temazcal In Oaxaca] Reference

SERWER: Well, the worms actually are in mezcal, which is sort of a cousin of tequila.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2006] Reference

That is not to state that the mezcal should be avoided since we've sampled some excellent rural pechuga.    From Wordnik.com.  [A connoisseur's guide to mezcal] Reference

Distilled agave juice was known for centuries as "mezcal".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tequila: not just Mexico's national drink!] Reference

The worm is only found in a bottle of mezcal, which is tequila’s ugly step-brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tequila Bar set to open August 28th in Mexico Pavilion at EPCOT | The Disney Blog] Reference

See if there be not a flask of mezcal within the lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference

I once ate the gusano at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [What happened to the worm, in Mezcal?] Reference

Me gusta el gusano si está en una botella llena de mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [where am I ? part II] Reference

Pictured above, you can see the mezcal shot with some fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

For a few minutes, we denied that she has ever tried mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Anything produced outside the tequila regions is labeled mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooking with Tequila: Mexico's National Drink Moves Into The Kitchen, part 1] Reference

The overall difference between mezcal and tequila is the strong smokiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

J & I checked out a mezcal bar the next day and tried the house stuff here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

We drank some more mezcal, and made him take the worm, which he hesitated on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

When we walked into this mezcal shop mezcaleria, there was no one to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

We have Coronas, a little mezcal and enough rum to sink the good ship Lollipop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banano's Bar] Reference

In Mexico City, tequila is popular, but here in Oaxaca, it's all about the mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Here the mezcal, Barranda 'was produced until the middle half of the last century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tapalpa: Land of colors] Reference

They are used as a "botana" — a snack, to accompany shots of mezcal, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapitas..........I Think?] Reference

In the area around El Camarón you'll once again encounter a few fábricas de mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A driving tour from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque: Part One] Reference

Self-guided treasure hunts asks foodies to try various cheeses, chocolates and mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responsible Tourism Fair, Oaxaca] Reference

I tried them once, with home distilled mezcal (which was fantastic), I did it on a dare.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'd rather eat glass than....] Reference

The mezcal, or pulque, the national drink of the Mexicans, is made from the sap of the agave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Candles were burning, and graves were decorated with flowers, bread, mezcal and candy skulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day of the Dead: death and decoration in Oaxaca] Reference

Demos and samples are gratis, and the tequila is good but the mezcal reposado is even better.    From Wordnik.com.  [36 Hours in Your Part of Mexico] Reference

From the pencas of the maguey came the first fermentation, pulque, and the distillate mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Oaxaca - Pre-hispanic Era] Reference

Drink Like a Local: La Botica Mezcaler í a. They serve more than two dozen varieties of mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico City: Magnifico Chaos] Reference

Not only that, even the best of its much touted mezcal can´t hold a candle to even bad tequila.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scoring good coffee in Oaxaca city] Reference

There were briers, mezcal plants, and many varieties of cactus; all luxuriant, hirsute, and thorny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference

He apparently had already did his own mezcal tasting at 4 or 5 stores and was already a little boracho.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

And so Hernando bought Carlos back from the empresario of the Plaza for two hundred pesos and a half bottle of Oaxacan mezcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlos The Impossible (Part 2)] Reference

For a couple days of tooling around Mitla, taking the DIY mezcal tour and getting lost in small towns, the car was invaluable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAR RENTAL] Reference