Is raicilla a tequila? A mezcal under another name? All three are relatives, not the same drink. From Las Guásimas, Cabo Corrientes, we explain what sets raicilla, mezcal, and tequila apart—appellation of origin, agaves, and process—and bust three common myths. The detail that says it all: the one agave raicilla can't use is, of all things, tequila's.