EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) — The Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park in Downtown El Paso — a Michelin One Key-rated hotel — launched its new Agave Room, which now houses the largest agave spirits collection in the country, hotel officials said.
Our KTSM crews got an inside look at one of their tasting dinners.
“It started with a dream. We already had a great collection of agave spirits, and we wanted to house all the bottles together. The capacity here is about 1,200 bottles, which is great because we can store more than half of our inventory,” said the Plaza Hotel’s General Manager Adrian Gonzalez.
When Gonzalez arrived in 2021 to take on his current role, the Plaza Hotel already had its collection of 800 agave spirits, but he said they were scattered throughout the hotel.
“The (spirits were) behind the Ambar (Hotel’s restaurant) bar in the Tequila Towers, in the kitchen, basement,” Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said the Agave Room draws inspiration from some of the finest tequila houses in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, where agave tasting dinners are a popular attraction that feature some of the finest brands of agave spirits in Mexico.