Paula Aquino Sánchez has been an integral part of our relationship to the community of Logoche since 2013, and she continues to educate, nurture, and inspire us. This 160L batch of pure Madrecuixe is an incredible reflection of Paula’s skill and expertise as a true master distiller. The bold and beautiful aromas and flavors are highly expressive of the magueyes and the region, but also specific to the very palenque where it was crafted.

Paula’s understanding of the nuances of fermentation and distillation come from nearly forty years of experience, learning from her grandfather, brothers, uncles, and later, working together with her husband, Hermógenes, and their son, Jorge. Many of their productions are made collectively between the family, but Paula also has her own parcels of land with her own agave. Over the last few years, she has begun to separate these batches which she makes and sells independently.

Paula and Hermogenes’ palenque is also shared with four other families, all either relatives or relationships forged in bonds of compadrazgo. In the case of this particular batch, Paula helped out her compadre, Chepe, and purchased upwards of 1,200kg of Madrecuixe that he had cooked in their horno in October 2020. Chepe harvested the mix of guía and quiotudo agaves of vastly different sizes from distinct parcels of land, blending flavors from red, black, and red soil types.