/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5657534
>villa de guadalupe

Great, so mexico has a couple of wines that aren't a complete joke? I seriously hope you're not comparing that to the french wine scene.

>mexican microbreweries winning "awards"

The "best third world beer" award? Sorry. I've had mexican microbrews, they're alright, pretty fucking amazing by third world standards, better than french beer even, but the mexican beer scene is essentially a derivative of the american beer scene. They're good beers but they're also a very new, very small phenomenon, culturally insignificant compared to tequila, pulque, and mezcal, and unless they figure out how to get hops to grow down there, it's extremely unlikely mexico will ever be known for its beers.

>mezcal
>10x better than tequila

And still that's the best mexico can do, so where does that leave you? Sorry but next to a country that produces armagnac, cognac, and all the amazing herbal liqueurs that the french have developed, "but mezcal" isn't going to cut it.

And it's telling that you left out mexican brandy, which is a shitty imitation of jerez and yet is far more culturally relevant than a few microbrews with fake frida kahlo motifs on the label.

Don't get me wrong, I love mexican food, and I'm glad to see that mezcal is getting broader appreciation internationally, but it's delusional to think that they can compete with france when it comes to drink culture.