agavist

Scan a bottle. Know the agave.

Point your phone at a mezcal or tequila label. See its agave, taste, maker and village.

In private testing, for iPhoneNot on the App Store yet. 1,308 bottles in its library.

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A tobalá agave, Agave potatorum, from a colour plate printed in 1868.
Agavist on iPhone after a scan of Bozal Tobalá, clay-pot mezcal (Ancestral), 46% alcohol: a drawing of its plant, tobalá, then fruity, mineral and citrusy, made by Isidro Damian, and a map pinned at Sola de Vega, Oaxaca.
Close up of the same screen: Fruity, mineral, and citrusy, from the maker’s notes. Made by Isidro Damian.

Drawn in 1868L’Illustration horticole

Point it at the label.

It reads the words on the label, on your phone. No account needed.

Agavist after the scan, From the label: the label’s picture, then Tierra Lenta, traditional mezcal (Artesanal), plant espadín, 47% alcohol, made in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, producer ID (NOM) 01234X. Read from the label. We check it before it joins the library. Buttons: Add to shelf, Scan again.
mezcal artesanal Tierra Lenta espadín Santiago Matatlán NOM-01234X · 47% Alc. Vol. Made-up label

Same plant, new bottle

Cuishe and barril are one plant. Scan a cuishe. If your shelf holds a barril, the app says so.

Agave karwinskii, the plant behind both cuishe and barril, in its pot: a wood engraving printed in 1877 under its old name, Agave corderoyi.

CuisheThe bottle you scan

BarrilThe bottle on your shelf

Agave karwinskii, engraved in 1877
Agavist after a scan of Banhez Cuishe: Same plant as your Barril, with the barril already on your shelf, Real Minero.

See where it comes from

Your map fills in as you scan.

Shown here: a sample shelf of eight bottles.

Map of Mexico with the sample shelf’s eight bottles by state: four from Oaxaca and one each from Durango, Guerrero, Puebla and San Luis Potosí. Three villages are pinned, the ones the map could place: Santa Catarina Minas and Santiago Matatlán in Oaxaca and Atolotitlán in Puebla.

Oaxaca4 of 8 bottles

Don’t know a word? Tap it in the app.

A bottle’s page in Agavist: Bozal Ensamble, with a dashed line under the word Ensamble, then Traditional mezcal (Artesanal) and Blend of agaves (Ensamble), each with an info mark.
The sheet that opens when you tap Ensamble: What is an ensamble? It is made from two or more agaves.
NOM
Producer ID
Capón
Flower stalk cut
Pechuga
Distilled with meat
The whole 1868 colour plate the tobalá at the top of this page was cut from: the plant on open ground under a pale sky, with its printed title, Agave Verschaffeltii.
The tobalá at the top of this page was cut from this plate, drawn in 1868 under its old name, Agave verschaffeltii.

Every bottle starts as a plant.

In private testingNot on the App Store yet.

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