Tahona
A stone wheel, drawn by animal, crushes the roasted agave. Fibre and sugar go into the vat together.
One valley.
Three mezcals.
Somos Pecadores and Sabia Maria are made at one family palenque in San Luis del Río, Oaxaca, and imported directly for the UK trade.
Follow the bottle
back to the field.
The road in
Bienvenidos a San Luis del Río.
Pueblo del mezcal ancestral, in the municipality of Tlacolula de Matamoros. All three are made here, at one family palenque, from agave grown on these hills.
Every bottle is traceable to this village, this palenque, the maguey and the maestro. Provenance is not a story we tell. It is a place you can drive to.
Espadín, seven to ten years in the field. Tobalá, wild, thirteen to fifteen.
Cut when the sugars peak, then carried here.
Cooked in the earth.
Stones heated over pine. The piñas laid in. The oven sealed with earth.
Days, not hours.
The maestro mezcalero decides when it is done. The smoke is the sign.
The wood is pine. The heat holds for days, and the smoke stays in the glass.
Then the slow part.
Ground by stone, fermented in pine, distilled twice in copper. Nothing here is hurried, and nothing is added.
Pine wood vats
Wild yeast from the valley, water and time. Several days, judged by the maestro, not by a clock.
Copper
Distilled twice in copper. Bottled young, at 45% for Somos Pecadores and 40% for Sabia Maria.
Every step at one palenque.
The same hands make all three. That is why they taste like one house.
Two brands. Three expressions.
One bold, one rare, one refined. All made at one palenque, all held exclusively by Maguey & Co. for the UK.
Bold · 45% ABV
Somos Pecadores · Espadín
Smoke, minerality, weight. Rated five stars by Difford's Guide in 2025.
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Rare · 45% ABV
Somos Pecadores · Tobalá
100% Agave potatorum, thirteen to fifteen years in the field. Small batches, tasted from the bottle.
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Refined · 40% ABV
Sabia María · Espadín
Mineral, citrus-fresh, built for the table and the hotel bar.
Explore Sabia MaríaAll three, direct from the house, for the UK trade. Taste before you list.