Guerra Seca

Ancestors of Raramuri have made the first sotol under the Chihuahua Desert sun in clay pots c. 200AD. The Dry War (Guerra Seca) began in the 1910s when teetotaler Pancho Villa emptied sotol barrels and executed maestros sotolero distillers. US speakeasies and Al Capone allied with sotoleros until the defeat of US prohibition in 1933. Sotoleros continued fighting and won the legal right to produce in 2002. Clay and steel combine in our alembic pots to give you a taste of ancestral sotol history.