Jalisco makes the tequila. Oaxaca makes the mezcal.
Which distillery day actually walks you into the fields, what a tasting flight costs before it turns into lunch, and whether the train out of Guadalajara beats a van. Reviews of every agave tour you can book.
The field walk, the palenque, the mixology night, the ring.
The four days an agave trip tends to hang off. What each one costs, how long it runs, and what the people who took it say.
01Agave countryThe Agave Experience Tequila Tour in JaliscoA walk through the blue agave rows above the town of Tequila with the men who cut it, then the distillery floor that turns it into a bottle.
02Oaxaca, the old wayGuided tour of an ancestral Mezcal distillery with transportA stone tahona, a horse to turn it and a clay still running on woodsmoke. Transport is included, which matters: the palenques are nowhere near town.
03The eveningFood & Mixology Tour:Tequila,Tacos, Mezcal and Agave CocktailsStreet tacos and agave cocktails through the Zona Romantica, with somebody explaining what is actually in the glass as you go.
04RingsideLucha Libre Tickets & Tacos & Beer & Mezcal – BEST NIGHT EVER!Arena Mexico with tacos and mezcal either side of it. The lucha nights are fixed, and the good seats go before the tacos do.
Jalisco or Oaxaca: the choice that shapes the whole trip.
Tequila can only legally be made in Jalisco and four municipalities beside it. Mezcal is Oaxaca's, from a different agave and a pit fire. Both run day trips out of a city you can sleep in, and they feel nothing alike.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Full Day Tour to Tequila and Amatitán with Fun and Culture
Jalisco, out of GuadalajaraAgave rows, the town of Tequila, a distillery floor and cantaritos on the way home.
Oaxaca, mezcal countryDirt roads to the palenques, clay stills, and Hierve el Agua folded into the same day.
The town itselfAn hour from the city. Jose Cuervo, the agave museum and a plaza built on the stuff.
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Six cities, and the agave day that starts from each one.
Guadalajara for the tequila towns, Oaxaca for the palenques, Mexico City for the mezcalerias and the ring. Then three coasts where a tasting comes bolted onto a beach day.
Where the tasting actually sits in your day.
Sometimes it is the whole point: four pours, somebody explaining why the third one tastes of oak, an hour and out. More often it is the last stop of something longer, after the bike ride or the tacos. Both are below, priced per person, so you know which one you are buying.
Mexico's most-booked agave days out.
Every tequila and mezcal review →More travellers book these than anything else with agave in it, and each one earns the slot for a different reason.
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Chichen Itza, Cenote & Valladolid Tour with Tequila and Lunch
Review of a 12-hour Chichen Itza, cenote, tequila, lunch, and Valladolid tour from Cancun, with honest advice on price, timing, and value.
From · $34
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Cabo Beach Camel Ride, Mexican Buffet and Tequila Tasting
from $99
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Early morning Chichen Itza Tour: Cenote and Tequila Tasting
from $26
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4×4 ATV Adventure with Tequila Tasting and Mexican Buffet Lunch
from $75
5
Cancun ATV Jungle Adventure, Ziplines, Cenote and Tequila Tasting
from $49
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Puerto Vallarta Best Zipline Canopy + Tequila and Speed Boat Ride
from $120
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ATV Tour, Camel Ride, Tequila Tasting and Mexican Buffet Lunch
from $149
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Cabo Migrino Beach and Desert ATV Tour plus Tequila Tasting
from $75
What an agave day out actually costs in Mexico.
Every priced tour grouped by what one person pays. A tasting room costs less than the taxi to the airport.
Tasting rooms, the mezcal museum bar, walking tours of a mezcaleria district and the cheap way to Tequila town.
The full days: agave fields and a distillery floor, Oaxaca palenques with Hierve el Agua, taco-and-mezcal nights.
Private guides, flights of aged bottles, and the off-road combos that swallow a whole day.
Nobody drives home from a tasting. Four things that decide the day.
The gating facts on an agave day are not the weather. They are who is behind the wheel on the way back, which distilleries open their gates to visitors and on whose timetable, and which nights the ring is lit. Every tour below includes the transport, which is the whole point of paying for one.
- 01José Cuervo Tequila Day Experience from GuadalajaraMundo Cuervo runs its distillery visits to fixed times with a cap on each one, so the slot is gone before you reach the town.
- 02Tequila ExpressThe train out of Guadalajara only runs on set days. The carriage sells out a long way ahead of the platform.
- 03Lucha Libre Tickets & Tacos & Beer & Mezcal – BEST NIGHT EVER!Arena Mexico lights the ring on fixed nights. Turn up on the wrong one and it is a locked door with a mural on it.
- 04Hierve el Agua, Tule Tree, Mitla and Mezcal Distillery TourHierve el Agua sits behind a community gate that has stayed shut for days at a time. Book the day that has a fallback, not the one that promises the terrace.
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