Prieto y Prieta Whisky Mexicano

Prieto y Prieta Whisky is the result of an exciting collaboration between two friends. Begun in 2018, the brand is the brainchild of Txomin Alcorta and Carlos Moreno, two people with rich histories in the beverage world. Txomin, working in cooperage, originally hails from Basque country and Carlos, the founder of Mezcal Koch has been working with agave in Oaxaca for 15 years. The goal was to make a spirit highlighting the diversity of Oaxaca’s terroir outside of agave. Marrying Txomin’s knowledge of barrels and spirit maturation with Carlo’s experience in the Oaxacan landscape of spirit distillation proved to be the perfect match. Initial batches of the spirit were made for local restaurants like Criollio and Levadura de Olla in Centro before expanding production and settling on their flagship whisky made of 4 Oaxacan corn varietals aged in 3 distinct barrels.