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Tequila NOMs, mezcal palenques, and the makers behind every protected and traditional Mexican spirit — filterable by type, state, and production style.
Tequila NOMs, mezcal palenques, and the makers behind every protected and traditional Mexican spirit — filterable by type, state, and production style.
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The celebrity tequila brand founded in 2021 by Kendall Jenner, produced at a contract distillery in Amatitán, Jalisco; the specific facility identifier is not publicly disclosed by the brand.
An artisanal mezcal from San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, made by maestro mezcalero Don Fortino Ramos in a conical earthen oven and fermented in Sabino-wood vats, with batches timed to the full moon and a wide range of cultivated and wild agaves.
The Añejo expression in Jake Lustig's curated ArteNOM Selección series, bottled from Enrique Fonseca's La Tequileña (NOM 1146) in the town of Tequila, Jalisco; an independent-bottler release rather than a single-distillery brand.
The Reposado bottling in Jake Lustig's ArteNOM Selección series, a US-based independent-bottler project that releases small batches of tequila under the producing distillery's NOM number; the 1414 expression sources from a Valles-region distillery in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, the same facility that today houses Diageo's Don Julio production.
A curatorial mezcal brand that bottles wild and semi-wild agave releases sourced from a network of palenques across Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Durango; founded by Eli Gunst under 3 Badge Beverage, returned to Mexican ownership in November 2024 when Maguey Imports acquired the label.
A Jiménez family distillery in Amatitán, Jalisco, founded in 1950 by Don Alfonso Jiménez Rosales (an earlier co-founder of Herradura) that bottles its agave spirits as destilado de agave rather than tequila so it can preserve heritage varietals and pre-DO methods the modern tequila standard discourages; the source of the "Chato" varietal that lent its name to the local-name shorthand.
The craft tequila brand founded in 2007 by Sophie Decobecq, a French biochemist whose cultivated-yeast experiments define each expression, now made in the Jalisco highlands under NOM 1545.
The luxury tequila house founded in 2008 by Bertha González Nieves, widely cited as the first certified female master distiller, and Bob Pittman, produced at Destilería Leyros in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, and built around the light, sippable Joven style.
The modern Mexican spirits house behind Abasolo, the country's first dedicated whisky distillery, opened in 2020 at Jilotepec in the State of México and built on nixtamalized heritage corn. Pernod Ricard took a stake in Abasolo and Nixta in 2023.
The oldest winery in the Americas, founded in 1597 at Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, under a royal grant from King Felipe II of Spain to Lorenzo García; primarily a winery, it is the deep historical anchor of the Mexican brandy story.
A premium tequila brand produced at Destilería La Cofradía in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, certified organic by CCOF, traditionally cooked in stone ovens and triple-distilled in copper; acquired by Constellation Brands in 2014.
The Pacheco family estate in Uruapan, Michoacán, producing cane spirits since 1907 and the most internationally distributed Charanda house; runs a four-stream lineup (fresh cane juice agricole, molasses, blended, mushroom-infused) under the Sol Tarasco and Uruapan Charanda labels.
The celebrity tequila brand founded in 2013 by George Clooney, Rande Gerber, and Mike Meldman, produced at Productos Finos de Agave in the Jalisco highlands, and acquired by Diageo in 2017 for up to one billion US dollars.
An independent, four-generation Rosales-family tequila distillery in El Arenal, Jalisco (NOM 1123), in the Valles region; known for traditional brick-oven cook, tahona-and-roller-mill extraction, open-air natural-yeast fermentation, copper pot-still distillation, and verified additive-free production across the Cascahuín line.
The century-old highland tequila brand, dating to 1922 and built on a Reposado aged in virgin American oak, now owned by the global drinks company Bacardi and produced at scale under NOM 1487 in Arandas, Jalisco.
A USDA-certified organic tequila made at the historic La Cofradía distillery in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, with a small companion line of espadín mezcal alongside its blue-agave range.
The Aconchi, Sonora vinatería of Roberto Contreras, a fifth-generation vinatero; Cielo Rojo was the first bacanora legally imported to the United States after Sonora lifted its 1915 prohibition in 1992, and the Contreras family also runs the sibling Rancho Tepúa label from the same 2,500-hectare cattle ranch.
A third-generation family mezcal from San Lorenzo Albarradas, Oaxaca, made by Luis Martínez and Faustina García, whose name evokes the elements air, water, earth, and fire alongside the maguey, with a range running from espadín to tepeztate and cuixe.
The tequila brand founded in 2019 by basketball figure Michael Jordan with a group of NBA team owners, contract-produced at the multi-brand Casa Maestri distillery in the town of Tequila, Jalisco.
A high-strength artisanal mezcal from Santa María Quiegolani, Oaxaca, built around a once-a-year espadín bottled near 55 percent alcohol, with tiny wild-agave limited editions of under a hundred litres, and sold largely into the European market.
The luxury tequila brand founded in 1997 by Arturo Lomeli, famous for its hand-painted ceramic decanter, and currently moving its production between two family-owned distilleries in the Jalisco highlands.
An ultra-premium tequila from Amatitán in Jalisco's lowland valley, aged in French oak barrels that previously held Napa Valley Cabernet, launched with backing from country singer George Strait and now majority-owned by Pernod Ricard.
A producer-owned, uncertified agave spirit made by maestro Dolores González Torres high above Batopilas in Chihuahua's Copper Canyon, distilling a wild lechuguilla agave and, at times, blending it with the sotol plant.
The single-village mezcal brand founded in 1995 by American artist Ron Cooper, credited with introducing artisanal village mezcal to the US market and effectively creating the modern American mezcal category; acquired by Pernod Ricard in 2017 with its named village partnerships maintained.
A rebellious, irreverent house that pairs clay-pot mezcal from Sola de Vega in Oaxaca with ancestral sotol from the deserts of Chihuahua, two of Mexico's most traditional agave-and-desert-lily spirits under one label.
An affordable, US-market organic sotol from Chihuahua, made from cultivated rather than wild desert-spoon plants and bottled as a Blanco at around 43% ABV.
The Chihuahua sotol heritage brand carrying the lineage of Don Refugio Cuco Pérez Márquez, a Madera-region distiller who kept the tradition alive when making sotol was illegal; his descendant Celso Jacquez became the first producer to legally export the spirit.
An independent, family-owned tequila brand produced at La Tequileña (NOM 1146) in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, run by Enrique Fonseca and Sergio Mendoza, known for hand-selected mature agave from the Los Altos highlands, traditional double distillation in copper, and an unusually cask-driven aging program that has earned it the label "the European-style tequila house."
The 1942-founded Atotonilco brand built by Don Julio González, now a Diageo-owned global ultra-premium tequila whose 1942 expression and 70 Cristalino helped define the modern cristalino category.
A small artisanal mezcal label sold under the name Doña Nicolasa Titicih, distributed in Mexico City through the Ocelotl crafts-and-coffee stall at the La Ciudadela market, with an active social-media presence and very little independent documentation.
A collective mezcal brand from Casa Cortés that draws on sixteen maestro families across ten Oaxacan regions, releasing single-vintage, single-batch, often single-palenque bottlings under the umbrella of a Cortés family lineage producing mezcal since around 1840.
A large, design-led Oaxacan mezcal brand founded in 2013 and made in San Baltazar Guelavila, now among the top US mezcals by volume, with a black-bottle Espadín, an Ensamble, and a Rare expression.
A classic Valles-region tequila house in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, founded in 1959 by Don Jorge Salles Cuervo and still independently run by the third-generation Salles family, with a single-brand NOM (1108) dedicated to El Tequileño tequila at the Destilería La Guarreña.
The historic Camarena-family distillery in Arandas, founded in 1937 and now in its third generation under Master Distiller Carlos Camarena; home of Tapatío (family-owned), El Tesoro (contract-produced for Beam Suntory), and historically Tequila Ocho.
A family mezcal house in the Zapotec village of Santa Ana del Río, Oaxaca, where the Cruz Molina family has made mezcal across four generations, distilling espadín, tobalá, tepeztate, jabalí, and a pechuga in copper after a horse-drawn stone mill.
An early commercial Sierra raicilla producer from Jalisco, and the house that brought a Tlaxcalan destilado de pulque to an international market by partnering with a five-generation pulque-producing family.
An artesanal sotol vinata associated with Maestro Sotolero José "Chito" Fernández Flores, working principally with Dasylirion wheeleri from the Chihuahuan sierra; the wheeleri bottlings are widely cited in serious sotol writing and gave rise to the "Wheeleri Chito" connoisseur shorthand that collapses producer and plant identity.
The Sauza family's original 1873 distillery, rebuilt in 2002–2005 by fifth-generation Guillermo Erickson Sauza and run as a traditional tahona-and-copper-pot operation in the town of Tequila.
Felipe Camarena's flagship tequila brand at Destilería El Pandillo (NOM 1579) in Jesús María, Arandas, Jalisco; a purpose-built modern distillery in the Highlands running traditional methods, verified additive-free, with on-site rainwater capture used in production.
An industrial-scale Chihuahua sotol producer founded in 1989 by Federico Elías and master distiller José Daumas; widely credited as the pioneer of the modern commercial sotol category, with the most internationally distributed lineup (Plata, Rústico, Reposado, Añejo, Oro Puro, H5, cream liqueurs) and a steam-cook plus copper-column production process that distinguishes it from the artesanal vinata tradition.
One of the oldest continuously operating tequila distilleries (founded 1870 in Amatitán, Jalisco), credited with releasing the modern category's first 100% agave reposado in 1974 and now owned by Brown-Forman after a 2007 acquisition.
An Oaxaca mezcal house run as a cooperative of family producers, whose name comes from Huaxyacac, the older Nahuatl word that gives Oaxaca its name, with a small but real footprint across retailers and an active social presence.
The oldest continuously operating tequila brand on record, traceable to a 1795 royal license and produced at La Rojeña in the town of Tequila by publicly-traded Becle, the largest tequila company in the world by volume.
A wild-harvested Chihuahuan-Desert sotol from Destiladora la Tradición la Familia in Coahuila, made from 100% wild desert-spoon plants that take around twenty years to mature, and named in reference to the Kikapú (Kickapoo) indigenous people of northern Mexico.
A Chihuahua sotol made by Maestro Sotolero Gerardo Ruelas in Aldama and imported by the team behind Fidencio Spirits, built as a species-by-species showcase of different Dasylirion plants, including a Texanum bottling that is Mexican-grown despite the plant's name.
Chef Esteban Morales's curatorial raicilla project, arguably the single brand most responsible for introducing raicilla to international drinkers in the mid-2010s. Markets four bottlings drawn from different sub-regions and producers across western Jalisco (Sierra Occidental, Sierra del Tigre, Costa, Tabernas), each made by a named raicillero working in a small vinata in his home village.
The Santa Catarina Minas palenque founded in 2014 by Eduardo "Lalo" Ángeles, fourth-generation Ángeles distiller, after he left his family's Real Minero operation to make organic clay-pot mezcal in very small batches under his own name.
A Chihuahua sotol brand founded by Juan Pablo Carvajal and Eduardo Almanza, made from wild-harvested organic desert spoon that is pit-roasted and triple-distilled, with a stated conservation programme and an associated Los Magos Foundation.
A mezcal curator that works with maestros mezcaleros across multiple Oaxacan villages and credits them per release, anchored by Doba-Yej, an accessible copper-distilled espadín whose name is Zapotec, and ranging up into clay-pot ancestral and pechuga expressions.
An independent house founded by Jed Wolf that bottles uncertified agave spirits from family distillers across Oaxaca, Puebla, and San Luis Potosí, labelling them "agave spirits" rather than mezcal by deliberate choice, with a flagship Mexicano from maestra Berta Vásquez of San Baltazar Chichicapam.
A Texas distillery in the art town of Marfa whose flagship sotol is not its own protected-origin spirit but a partnership, distilled in Mexico by Sotol Don Celso in Janos and then finished and bottled across the border in Texas.
A producer-region identifier rather than a single distillery: the cluster of Sierra raicilla vinatas in and around the town of Mascota, Jalisco, anchored by the Casa Museo de la Raicilla and tied together by the annual municipal Raicilla festival.
A cooperative of roughly thirty producer families based in Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca, pooling small family palenques under one label: artesanal, copper double-distilled mezcal kept traditional and additive-free at an accessible price.
A Sierra Norte mezcal palenque in San Cristóbal Lachirioag, Oaxaca, founded by Zapotec cousins Elisandro González Molina and Edgar González Ramírez after their return from Silicon Valley; the first commercial mezcal house in their village, with an in-house agave nursery and Bat Friendly certification.
A multi-maestro mezcal portfolio founded in 2013 in partnership with the late Don Aquilino García López of San Juan del Río, now owned by Bacardi but operationally claimed independent, with each maestro bottled under their own color-coded label.
The leading educational mezcal institution in Oaxaca City: a by-appointment tasting room and preservation archive founded in 2010 by Silvia Philion, which bottles small private releases under the Mezcalosfera label sourced from traditional palenques across Oaxaca, many of them women-led.
A small 100% agave artisanal mezcal label from the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca whose footprint is almost entirely on social media, with no entry on the major review sites and very little independent documentation.
An Oaxaca City mezcal brand founded around 2014 and named for the giant papier-mâché puppets that dance in the city's parades, sourcing espadín and a wide cast of wild agaves from family producers and pouring them at a tiny tasting room in the historic centre.
An independent Oaxaca house that commercializes single-batch agave spirits from more than twenty small family producers around the village of Logoche, in the Sierra Sur near Miahuatlán, and labels them "agave spirits" rather than mezcal by deliberate choice.
A wild-harvested Chihuahua sotol distilled in Aldama by Don Eduardo "Lalo" Arrieta, developed by the Mexican spirits group Casa Lumbre with the musician Lenny Kravitz as a partner, and distributed internationally with the backing of Pernod Ricard.
A high-volume artesanal Chihuahua sotol made by Maestro Sotolero Gerardo Ruelas in Aldama from wild Dasylirion wheeleri, carrying a Ruelas family tradition that stretches back well over a century in the Coyame desert.
The Austrian-founded luxury tequila brand launched in 2014, made under NOM 1466 in the Amatitán Valley of Jalisco, distinguished by a skull-decorated bottle and by a production line led by master distiller Erika Sangeado.
The cult Oaxacan cane-juice rum estate of José Luis Carrera, working high in the Sierra Mazateca cloud forest at San Andrés Ixtlahuaca, deeply tied to the Mezcal Vago team. Wild-fermented fresh-pressed sugarcane, distilled and bottled unaged at 54% alcohol, it revived a centuries-old Mexican cane tradition for an international audience.
A tequila brand produced at Destilería El Pandillo (NOM 1579) in Jesús María, Arandas, in the Jalisco Highlands, by third-generation distiller Felipe Camarena; entirely additive-free, traditional in method, and known for the custom-built "Felipenstein" mechanical tahona and the rainwater-and-spring-water dilution that distinguishes it from sibling brand G4 at the same facility.
The ultra-premium tequila brand founded in 1989 by Martin Crowley and John Paul DeJoria that essentially defined the category for the US market, acquired by Bacardi in 2018 for roughly $5.1 billion.
The Oaxacan mezcal label founded in 2008 by American-born artist Jonathan Barbieri in partnership with the Sanchez distilling family of San Baltazar Chichicapam, now owned by Diageo (acquired May 2018), best known for its Conejo (wild rabbit pechuga), its Pechuga, and the mezcal-gin hybrid +9 Botanicals.
A family house in Bachiniva, Chihuahua, three generations deep in apple orchards and farming, that revived its regional sotol around 2010 with pit-roasting, axe-milling, and wild yeast, and also bottles bacanora from Sonora and raicilla from Jalisco.
The Contreras family's higher-end sibling label to Cielo Rojo, produced in Aconchi, Sonora by fifth-generation vinatero Roberto Contreras; distinctive within the bacanora category for also releasing a Palmilla (Dasylirion wheeleri) expression from wild plants on the family's 2,500-hectare cattle ranch.
A woman-owned Chihuahua sotol brand founded by Valerie Alcalde Bussey in 2018, made from wild desert spoon in near-exclusive partnership with the master distiller Bienvenido Fernández of Madero, and named in homage to the Rarámuri (Tarahumara) people of the Sierra.
The Ángeles family palenque in Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca, founded in the late 19th century and now led by fifth-generation siblings Edgar and Graciela Ángeles Carreño; the defining house of clay-pot ancestral mezcal.
The Sánchez Parada family palenque in Candelaria Yegolé, Sierra Sur de Oaxaca, founded as a commercial brand in 2003 by Romulo Sánchez Parada on a family distillation operation dating to roughly 1870; double-distilled artesanal mezcal across one of the widest single-species expression lineups in the category.
A Sonoran bacanora brand long associated with the Chacón family vinatería in the town of Bacanora and the maestro bacanorero Manuel "El Toro" Chacón, now operated under the Casa Santeros parent company on the Oroz family's Rancho San Isidro in the Sierra of Quiriego. The brand has the thinnest English-language source footprint of the bacanora houses covered on this site, and this page is deliberately conservative about what it asserts.
A Chihuahua producer best known for Gintol, a gin distilled on a sotol base rather than a neutral grain spirit, alongside a straight sotol, blurring the line between a Mexican sotol house and a craft gin maker.
A Durango sotol made by maestro sotolero Juan Conde at an old hacienda in San Nicolás de Acevedo, near Nombre de Dios, blending three desert-spoon species into an ensamble fermented with wild yeasts and bottled at about 43% alcohol.
The Oaxacan whisky house founded by Douglas French in 2014, built on the Scorpion Mezcal distillery he had run since 1996; it bottles six expressions, each distilled from a single variety of native Oaxacan corn, treating heirloom maize the way mezcal treats agave.
Independent Los Altos tequila producer founded in 1952 by Don Ignacio González Vargas, named after Pancho Villa's horse, and famous for running two parallel distilleries (a tahona-based Fábrica El Centenario and a roller-mill Fábrica La Vencedora) on a single Atotonilco site.
A small Chihuahua sotol cooperative founded by Ricardo Pico in the late 2010s to bottle traditional underground-oven sotol from several sierra vinatas under a unified label; the cooperative wound down in 2020 and Pico relaunched the network as Sotoleros.
A traditional Chihuahua sotol from one of the oldest surviving vinatas in the state, made at the Ruelas family distillery in Aldama by Maestro Sotolero Gerardo Ruelas from wild Dasylirion leiophyllum.
A cocktail-friendly Chihuahua sotol made by Maestro Sotolero Gerardo Ruelas in Aldama from 100% Dasylirion cedrosanum, bottled under the Laika Spirits label and imported to the United States by Skurnik.
A Chihuahua sotol house, founded by Jorge Caldera, that curates small single-batch lots from a network of family master distillers across the state and into neighbouring Durango, releasing constantly rotating expressions rather than one fixed house style.
An artesanal sotol from the Jacquez family vinata at Rancho La Guadalupana in Janos, Chihuahua, made from wild Dasylirion harvested principally in the Camargo region; renamed Sotol Don Celso in 2019 to honor the late fifth-generation distiller Celso Jacquez.
A small sourcing project led by the sotol educator Ricardo Pico that bottles microbatch sotol and lechuguilla from traditional Chihuahua distillers, with releases that rarely exceed about seventy bottles.
A Chihuahua sotol house, made at the Innovación Licorera distillery, that bottles single-species expressions of three different desert-spoon plants plus a blend, and whose "Texano" bottling is named for a plant species, not a place of production.
A modern, post-DO Sonoran bacanora brand running a hybrid production method (lava-rock pecan-wood ovens + autoclave + proprietary cultured yeast + copper pot stills) at scale that distinguishes it from the artesanal vinatero tradition that defined the category during the 1915-1992 prohibition era.
An ultra-premium extra añejo tequila brand by Germán González, produced under contract at La Tequileña (NOM 1146) in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, aged five years in a multi-cask program inspired by Cognac and Scotch maturation; released in small numbered batches and widely cited as additive-free.
The first tequila brand to vintage-date its bottles by harvest year and name the specific rancho the agave came from, founded in 2008 by Carlos Camarena and the late Tomas Estes.
The tequila brand founded in 2020 by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Ken Austin and Jenna Fagnan, made at its own single-brand distillery in the Jalisco highlands, and still independently owned rather than acquired.
A San Dionisio Ocotepec palenque in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, run by fifth-generation maestro mezcalero Alberto "Beto" Morales Méndez in partnership with a group of Mexico City founders, producing organic, double-copper-distilled mezcal across espadín, wild-agave, ensamble, pechuga, and botanically-infused expressions.
A small Sonoran house led by Sinohe Chacón that distills three of the northern desert's distinct spirits side by side, a bacanora, a local sotol it calls "palmilla", and a lechuguilla, each from a different desert plant.