Tomás Mendez is responsible for bringing a lot of mezcal brands from field to bottle. Anne Bruce investigates how Tomas helps mezcal brands get started.

I’d heard of Tomás long before I met him. Sometimes as a maestro mezcalero, a brand fixer, the cousin of an old friend…Tomás is all of these things. He can source agave, source mezcal, find a bottler, and give advice on every step of the process that allows a fully certified mezcal to be poured into your glass.