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Difford's Guide reviews Los Magos Sotol Blanco

September 24, 2026

Difford's Guide has a full tasting page for Los Magos Sotol Blanco, with production detail and notes.

Los Magos Sotol beside two WhistlePig whiskey bottles inside a barn

One37pm on the WhistlePig collaboration

September 24, 2026

One37pm covered the limited WhistlePig bundle, with Juan Pablo Carvajal on why sotol expresses its land the way wine does.

A harvester swinging a tool over a wild sotol plant under a wide desert sky

Remezcla interviews the founders

April 17, 2024

Kiko Martinez talks to the founders about eight centuries of Chihuahuan tradition, sustainable sourcing and the foundation work.

Los Magos Sotol WhistlePig Edition bottle on a speckled stone surface

Men's Journal on the Los Magos and WhistlePig release

May 10, 2023

Men's Journal covered the barrel-aged WhistlePig Edition and called aging sotol in rye whiskey barrels revolutionary.

Los Magos Sotol WhistlePig Edition bottle

Gear Patrol picks the WhistlePig Edition among the month's best drinks

May 01, 2023

The Los Magos Sotol WhistlePig Edition landed at number two in Gear Patrol's roundup of the best things they drank in May 2023.

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Cool Material: if you like tequila and mezcal, get to know sotol

March 31, 2023

An explainer built on an interview with our CEO Ryan Stock, covering what sotol is and how we harvest it.

Roasted sotol pinas piled in the Chihuahuan Desert after a traditional wild harvest

Modern Farmer on sotol and the sustainable harvest

January 09, 2023

Modern Farmer looked at sotol as a sustainable alternative to agave, including the seed work Los Magos does on harvested land.

Los Magos co-founder Juan Pablo Carvajal in the Chihuahuan grassland

Authority Magazine: five things Juan Pablo wishes someone had told him

December 03, 2022

A founder interview with Juan Pablo Carvajal on starting Los Magos as a side project in 2016 and taking it to the US.

A bartender at a copper bar top with a bottle of Los Magos Sotol Blanco and a finished cocktail

Forbes: go beyond tequila with another magical Mexican spirit

May 04, 2022

Brad Japhe's Cinco de Mayo piece for Forbes singled out Juan Pablo Carvajal among the trendsetters bottling sotol from Chihuahua.

Los Magos 6 Year Reserva in a wooden box beside a bottle of Blanco and a cowboy hat on a rock

Vogue Mexico: Elixir and Tradition

December 01, 2021

Our December 2021 feature in Vogue Mexico, on Chihuahua, the sotolero tradition and the 40% harvest rule.

Los Magos Sotol and WhistlePig collaboration bottles side by side

BevNET names the WhistlePig collaboration a whiskey to try

September 13, 2021

BevNET's September 2021 new whiskey roundup included the Los Magos and WhistlePig Norte a Durango bundle.

Open-air pine fermentation vats at the Los Magos sotol distillery in Chihuahua

Spirited: inside sotol, the hidden desert gem

May 05, 2021

A deeper feature on sotol as a category and the traditional pit roasting and copper stills behind it.