The Spirit of Mezcal: For Cinco de Mayo, Take an Agave Road Trip to Mexico with Lou Bank For some months now, Bank has been teaming with Salvador “Chava” Periban, head distiller at Sombra distillery, to produce the Agave Road Trip, an informative and entertaining podcast designed to teach gringo bartenders about agave, agave spirits and rural Mexico. For Cinco de Mayo, Bank and Periban have formulated an Agave Road Trip-in-a-Box.