Named for the three tribes that first settled the region, Tres Tribus is a small-batch artisanal mezcal hand-crafted by fifth-generation mezcalero Juan Antonio Coronel in the remote mountains of Oaxaca. A descendant of the Zapotec and Mixtec people, Coronel’s family has long handed down the secrets of mezcal. These time-honored traditional techniques bring forth pure, rich, and complex profiles of the wild agave foraged from the region’s lush, pine-covered forests.

NOM:0663X
Location: San Francisco Nuexaño, Oaxaca
Master distiller: Juan Antonio Coronel
Agave Harvesting: Agaves are harvested and cooked for up to a week in an underground conical oven using Encino Oak wood
Mashing: Cooked agave is machine mashed due to its tough fibers
Fermentation: Mashed agave is loaded into underground amphoras to ferment for up to a week with ambient yeast, even in colder weather
Water Source: Pristine mountain water from a nearby volcano aquifer is used
Distillation: Double distilled in copper