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One Night Only: Inside Oaxaca s Secret Mezcal Desert Festival Photos

To truly understand the magical properties of mezcal, you need to go to Oaxaca in Mexico’s smoky southern heartland where the stuff gushes right out of the ground. It’s also where hundreds of people from as far away as London and Berlin now fly in for t​he Mezcal Amarás Experience, a ​one-night, ​word-of-mouth festival in the agave fields that occurs once a year for 24 hours in early spring—and then vanishes.