Artisanal Distillates

Our founder who lead the company: César González Hermosillo Domínguez is based in Mexico City. César supervises production, distribution, and new product development, while back in 2005, when most were drinking tequila, César opened the first mezcal bar, “La Botica”, which helped create the buzz about mezcal in Mexico City, and since then, he’s been a leader in the industry, helping draft the new rules of mezcal production. ------------------------------------------------------------------- *Work History Founder and Managing Director of La Botica SAPI CV. 2005 - Present. 15 yrs, 10 months. ___ Treasurer of COMANDO (Comite Nacional para la Sustentabilidad del Maguey, Mezcal y Destilados de Origen). 2009 to Present. 12 yrs. ___ Associate CRM (Mezcal Regulatory Council). 2009 - Present. 12 yrs. ------------------------------------------------------------------- *Education BA in Architecture (Universidad Iberoamericana) - 1994 to 1999 MBA (IPADE) - 2014 to 2016

Danny Mena is a Mexican-born, New York City-educated alum of fine dining restaurants like Blue Hill and The Modern. He is the proprietor of a Mexican luncheonette in Bushwick, Brooklyn called La Loncheria, as well as a co-owner of Mezcal de Leyendas’ family of brands. Mena’s pathway to the culinary world came via several detours. By the time he was studying engineering at Virginia Tech, Mena was hosting dinner parties for friends, delighting in exposing them to real Mexican dishes that reflected the essence of his native country’s culture. Not cut out for the corporate politics associated with his first job, he moved to New York enrolled at the International Culinary Center (formerly FCI) Before graduating, he interned at Blue Hill NYC before taking on his first professional culinary job at The Modern. Mena left and opened a small collaboration in an unutilized space in DUMBO. Their collaboration opened as Hecho en Dumbo and eventually moved to the Bowery serving traditional Mexican food that Mena had become so fond of. Hecho en Dumbo closed in 2018, 11 years after its inception. In 2009 Mena begin distributing Mezcal de Leyendas in the United States. Since then, Mena has melded his focus on his original passion of cooking and with his new passion of mezcal. Over the past 12 years the brand has become one of the brands of the world, growing in double digits year on year. Spreading from NYC, Mezcales de Leyenda is now in the vast majority of states in the United States, as well as Canada, the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Singapore and, of course, maintains a major footprint in Mexico. Mena has continued to use his engineering skills, working on the production side of business, with its continuous growth, as well as learning on brand building and marketing side of business, as well as working with distributors and retailers. In 2019 he published his first cookbook called, Made in Mexico: Classic and Contemporary Recipes from Mexico City published by Rizzoli. More than just a cookbook, it’s also a culinary guide to one of the gastronomic centers of the world.