Kami Kenna Mar 243 min readThe Arc of Acre; When a Restaurant Opening and a Global Pandemic CollideThis is extracted from a school project from the fall of 2020 that I felt compelled to share four years later: I was opening a restaurant...
Kami Kenna Aug 27, 20234 min readCriolla GrapesVitis vinifera is the single species that forms the basis for nearly all of the wine the world consumes, there are between 5,000 and...
Kami Kenna Aug 24, 20231 min readA Tale of 2 D.O.s: Pisco & MezcalComparing and contrasting two spirit categories helps add dimension to our understanding of them. For most of the last 10 years, I have...
Kami Kenna Jul 11, 20232 min readGet Certified with the Agave Spirits Institute Working in Mexico since 2016 with Experience Agave, the first brand dedicated to promoting the tradition of agave spirits through...
Kami Kenna Sep 26, 20212 min readFiber Extraction Remains Second Most Important Activity Associated with Maguey in OaxacaRarely do we consider the spirits that we drink as the (agri)cultural products that they are, their impact on producing communities, and...
Kami Kenna Jun 1, 20202 min readA Man and his Caña | Jose Luis Carrera Producer of Paranubes Rum José Luis Carrera is the producer of Paranubes, a rum distilled from the juice of fresh-pressed sugarcane and located deep in Southern...
Kami Kenna Jan 12, 20192 min readApu Winery reigns supreme atop Peru's southern Andes. Apu Winery is perched on a rugged Andean mountainside and it's vines cascading toward the agricultural valley that sits below. Their...