A producer kneels at the brick firebox beneath a still, feeding split pine into the fire, a stack of cut wood in the foreground.

Savior Spirits Produced by Salvador Picazo Chavez and Adrian Gallegos

We don’t buy spirits. We make them.

From raw material to bottle.
From Michoacán to your glass.

We are producers of Mexican spirits.

We work with agave, sugarcane, fruit and the extraordinary agricultural traditions of Mexico to create spirits from the ground up.

We don’t search for finished liquid and put our label on it.

We make the liquid.

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N° 02Production

Made,
not sourced.

Two jimadores work with long-handled coas to free a large agave piña from its leaves in a green field under a blue sky.
Pl. 02 Harvest. Freeing the piña.

There is an important difference between owning a spirits brand and producing a spirit.

We are producers.

Our work begins long before there’s a bottle.

It begins with the raw material. With agave growing in the mountains. With sugarcane coming from the field. With fruit and botanicals.

  • With fermentation.
  • Distillation.
  • Blending.
  • Tasting.
  • Adjusting.

And sometimes starting again.

We obsess over the process because the liquid is the brand.

  1. 01 Raw Material
    A freshly harvested agave piña, its leaves cut away, resting on the trimmed pencas in the field.
  2. 02 Fermentation
    Rows of wooden fermentation tinas under an open-sided roof, the nearest vat filled with dark fermenting must, a hand-painted “Fermentación” sign hanging from the beams.
  3. 03 Distillation
    A producer reaches up to feed a hose into the open hatch of a copper still set in brick.
  4. 04 Spirit
    A row of finished Puesto Mexican Gin bottles on a brick ledge in front of the copper still that made them.

That’s what
we do.

Taste What We Make
Rows of agave running across a wide valley toward distant mountains under a cloud-filled sky.

N° 03Our Compass

Michoacán
is home.

A large, broad-leafed wild agave growing from a rocky mountain slope among pine and oak.
Pl. 03 Agave on the mountainside.

Not a marketing story.

Our story.

Our roots are in Cotija, Michoacán.

The mountains, agaves, agriculture, people and traditions of Michoacán have shaped the way we think about spirits.

It’s why we care about where something grows.

It’s why our mezcal explores different agaves and different places instead of trying to make every bottle taste exactly the same.

And it’s why, even as we explore tequila, rum, gin and other Mexican spirits, Michoacán remains our compass.

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Low cloud over green, forested mountains around the vinata, with a bottle of La Luna Mezcal standing on a stone ledge in the foreground.
Pl. 04 The vinata, in cloud.

N° 04The Producers

Two producers.
One obsession.

Salvador and Adrian

Salvador + Adrian, producing
Salvador Picazo Chavez and Adrian Gallegos crouch behind a fermentation drum as thick foam spills over its rim, under the tin roof of the vinata.
Salvador and Adrian, arm in arm and laughing, on a covered terrace above dry hills.
Salvador and Adrian side by side and smiling, one raising a small cup, on the same terrace.
Salvador and Adrian arm in arm at a microphone, speaking to a gathering outdoors.

We didn’t come to spirits because we wanted to create labels.

We came to make spirits.

What began with mezcal became an obsession with Mexican raw materials, fermentation, distillation and the incredible diversity of spirits Mexico is capable of producing.

Salvador Picazo Chavez and Adrian Gallegos are the producers behind these spirits. We create the recipes, develop the processes and teach our production teams how to bring them to life — from how we cultivate our agaves to how we ferment and distill them. From the agave fields to the still.

A jimador works a coa around an agave piña on a steep, wooded hillside.
Pl. 05 The agave fields.
A producer hauls a long plank of firewood past the brick firebox of a copper still.
Pl. 06 The still.

Different spirits.

Different raw materials.

The same producer’s mentality.

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N° 05Portfolio

The spirits
we make.

  1. 01La LunaMezcal
  2. 02GustosoMexican Rum
  3. 03PuestoMexican Gin
  4. 04Gran DovejoTequila
Three bottles of La Luna Mezcal — Bruto, Manso Sahuayo and Cupreata — standing on a dark wooden shelf against a weathered stone wall.

01 / 04La Luna Mezcal

Michoacán
in a bottle.

Our exploration of agave, terroir and the traditional mezcal-making cultures of Michoacán.

Cupreata. Manso. Bruto. Tequilana. Espadín. Espadincillo. Salmiana. Ensambles.

Different agaves.
Different places.
Different expressions of the same state we call home.

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02 / 04Gustoso Mexican Rum

Mexico grows
sugarcane, too.

Sugarcane in the field, the raw material for Gustoso Mexican Rum.

Gustoso begins with sugarcane and explores another agricultural tradition of Mexico through rum.

Made from the raw material forward.

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A bottle of Gustoso Mexican Rum.

03 / 04Puesto Mexican Gin

Gin, through
a Mexican lens.

Fruit-forward. Colorful. Inspired by the neighborhood fruit puestos of Mexico and the ingredients surrounding us.

A gin that couldn’t have come from anywhere else.

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A bottle of Puesto Mexican Gin on a wooden crate beside whole pineapples at a brick-walled fruit stand.
A producer tips a painted clay bowl of cut watermelon into the open hatch of a still.
Pl. 07 Fruit, into the still.
A painted clay bowl of dried herbs above a bed of fresh citrus leaves.
A rider on horseback crosses a field of blue agave, a ridge of mountains on the horizon under a pale sky.

04 / 04Tequila Gran Dovejo

Our expression
of Jalisco,
with Michoacán
influence.

A bottle of Tequila Gran Dovejo.

Serious tequila production built around agave, process and an uncompromising focus on the liquid.

Because tequila deserves the same producer mentality we bring to everything else.

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  1. N° 06From raw material to bottle

    From this…

    Agave

    A harvester trims the leaves from a large agave piña in a hillside field.

  2. Fire

    A producer gathers planks of firewood at the base of a brick-clad still.

  3. Fermen­tation

    Wooden fermentation tinas under an open-air roof at the vinata.

  4. Distil­lation

    A producer tends a copper still set in brick.

  5. Bottle

    A finished bottle of La Luna Mezcal, Maguey Bruto, held up in front of the vinata.

  6. To this.

    That’s production.

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N° 07Philosophy

Award-winning liquid.
Before the marketing.

We believe a beautiful bottle should contain something worth talking about.

Our spirits have earned recognition on some of the industry’s biggest stages, but awards aren’t where our process begins.

They are a consequence of it.

Three bottles of La Luna Mezcal beside a cut wheel of aged cheese on a wooden table at the vinata, green hills behind.
Pl. 08 Finished, at the vinata.

We build the brand around something real.

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N° 08Manifesto

Made in Mexico. Made by us.

Not sourced.

Not selected from somebody else’s inventory.

Not a story invented after the liquid was made.

We produce
spirits.

And everything you find here begins with that promise.

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