Mexico is home to the world’s richest agave biodiversity, shaped by more than ten thousand years of human-agave interactions. In recent decades, the rising global demand for mezcal—an agave-based spirit—has exerted pressure on Mexican territories and their human and more-than-human inhabitants, moving at a pace that disrupts rural dynamics and the agave’s intrinsic temporalities. Yet the dominant narrative surrounding mezcal continues to rely on its mythification, promoting its own version of an architecture of the mezcal that culminates in the figure of the so-called pueblo mezcalero, a reductive terminology that compresses complex spatial realities into monofunctional sites of production. Through a methodology based on grounded, long-term fieldwork and the creation of situated visual material, this thesis offers counter-narratives that open space for alternative futures for the mezcal communities, particularly in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca.