Rezpiral is a spirits label, project and fair trade practice that brings beautiful selections of the highest quality traditional agave spirits to a handful of people and places in the USA. At the score of the project is the embrace of an ethos that aims to respect and support the multi-generational knowledge, independence, flavors, lands and ways of mezcalero families. Rezpiral's small scale allows for the advocacy of diversity, from supporting the autonomy of producers and their continued production of single batch artisanal spirits to the preservation of local land control and agave varietals. These ethics seek to contribute to the countering of industrial standardization and cultural appropriation of this family and pueblo produced spirit and support.

Series #6: Projects happening this season:
30% post-cost profit-share with producers
Gifting/transplanting approx. 25,000 agaves raised from seed in their nursey to mezcalero family controlled lands

Maestro: Alejandrina and Nicolas Hernandez
Community: Rio Seco Zoquitlan
Maguey: Espadin grown for 9 yrs
Mill: Mechanical shredder
Oven: 6 days in conical oven, volcanic rock, mixed wood fired
Ferment: 6 day fermentation in cypress
Distilled: Double distilled copper alambique, cactus fired
Batch and Adjustment: 200 Liters June 2021, heads and tails
ABV: 44.4%