Best place in Zihu/ Ixtapa to buy Tequilas ( Variety/Price)

Tequila Por Favor, both in Zihua and Ixtapa, is a good place for more unusual tequilas not found in the US or Soriana. They have many 'additive free' tequilas and a good selection of mezcals. You can claim tequilas to be 100% blue agave as long as there is under 1% additives. That probably was ok 20 years ago, but now with concentrated sweeteners, not so much. A good site for reference is tequilamatchmaker.com. They list most of the additive free tequilas. They also list the type of extraction. The old school, brick oven method is like many mezcals still employ. It's labor and time intensive, where the agave cores or pinas are mashed and then heated to release the sugars for fermentation. The the big companies, like Diageo with Don Julio, have taken over many of the major labels. In the name of efficiency, they use basketball court sized diffusers that use high pressure steam and hydrochloric acid to release the sugars. Then, a bit of sweetener and vanilla flavoring is added to simulate longer aging in wood barrels. Not to pick on Diageo, but they own Jim Beam bourbon and reuse those barrels for several of their tequilas.

Mezcal from Guerrero is usually derived from the cupreata agave and is quite good for reasonable cost.