The Founding Maestro Mezcalero.
Don Manuel Villasuso Ledezma (1914-1999).

Our founder was an extraordinary person who dedicated his life’s work to the land. When he was 32 years old, he became the mezcal production manager of the Marquisate’s Hacienda, Jaral de Berrio. The extensive expertise he obtained from running the facility belonging to the very last Countess of Mexico, drove him to open the first of his three mezcal distilleries. For him, life’s greatest pleasure was the agaves.