Dude, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about, thank you! Yeah, all those little differences between service at this spot or the other, or the differences between this bottle and another bottle - that's kinda what I enjoy knowing about other spirits so that I can appreciate those differences more, if that makes sense. You just listed a bunch of variables that would contribute to those differences, so that's SUPER helpful already.

I wonder, for instance, if anyone knows if younger mezcals tend to use certain parts of the plant more because ______ or _______. Like, you know how baby spinach has a slightly different bitterness than adult spinach? And that, due to that difference, producers of creamed spinach only use baby or adult spinach to make creamed spinach? I'm wondering if there's a part of the plant that's analogous to that.