Gusano Sunrise
60 ml Mezcal Monte Albán · 120 ml fresh orange juice
Manifesto
We don’t make mezcal to follow a tradition. We make it because we belong to it.
Mezcal Monte Albán® is born of a land, a process and a heritage honoured in every distillation.
Our collection
MONTE ALBÁN®
WITH WORM
History
PEOPLE AND
THE AGAVE
For ten thousand years, the people of Mesoamerica have shared their fate with the maguey. Its domestication, its place in ritual and its passing down the generations define a heritage that is still alive in Oaxaca.
Read moreORIGIN
OAXACA,
MEXICO
In the lands of Oaxaca, agave is landscape, livelihood and memory. This is where Mezcal Monte Albán is born.
Recipes & Cocktails
Cocktails
Three cocktails to discover new ways to enjoy Monte Albán.
Traditional Gusano
60 ml Mezcal Monte Albán · 1 orange, in segments
Donaji cocktail
60 ml Mezcal Monte Albán · 30 ml lime juice
The Process
01
CULTIVATION AND HARVEST
For generations, mezcal agaves have been selected from wild plants for the shape, size and flavour of their ‘piñas’.
02
CUTTING AND COLLECTION
From planting to harvest, the grower tends the plant and knows when the agave is ‘just right’ for cutting the piña.
03
BOTTLING AND DISTRIBUTION
After distillation at the palenque, quality control gives the spirit a consistent strength, body and length before it is bottled.