La Reina Raicilla Ancestral de la Sierra

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From the rugged highlands of Jalisco, La Reina Raicilla Ancestral de la Sierra is a rare expression of Mexico's most untamed agave spirit tradition, crafted with ancestral methods that have endured for generations.


Raicilla is the wild cousin of mezcal, and the Ancestral de la Sierra designation signals a production process rooted in time-honored, minimally interventionist technique. Harvested from agave plants native to the Sierra Occidental, this raicilla embodies the volcanic soil, mountain air, and generational knowledge of its origin in ways that few spirits can claim.


  • Nose: Expect the untamed character of a true ancestral raicilla, with earthy, herbal, and subtly fruity aromas drawn from the wild agave and rustic distillation environment.
  • Palate: Bold and layered, with the raw, roasted agave intensity that defines the Sierra style, balanced by mineral depth and green, wild notes.
  • Finish: Long and contemplative, with a dry, smoky warmth that lingers and invites another sip.

La Reina Raicilla Ancestral de la Sierra shines when served neat or on a single large ice cube, but it also brings extraordinary depth to a Raicilla Paloma or a simple Raicilla Sour where its ancestral character can take center stage.


Best enjoyed neat at room temperature to honor its ancestral production. La Reina Raicilla Ancestral de la Sierra is crafted from agave native to the Sierra region of Jalisco, Mexico.


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Location: Atenguillo, Jalisco
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Master Distiller: Julio Topete Becerra
La Reina is a raicilla de la sierra from Atenguillo, a town 1,655 meters up in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Jalisco. It is made mainly from agave maximiliana, a wild species that grows only from seed, so the team raises seedlings in its own nursery and replants them. Local rules allow only 10 percent of the region's agave to be harvested, and each plant rests about two more years after its quiote is cut to build sugar. The agave is roasted in an oven preheated for six hours, crushed by hand with wooden mallets in hollowed tree trunks and fermented open-air in oak barrels for seven days.
Map of Jalisco, Mexico, with Atenguillo marked
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Atenguillo, Jalisco

Map of Jalisco, Mexico, with Atenguillo marked

Atenguillo is a small mountain municipality of about 4,200 people in the Costa-Sierra Occidental region of western Jalisco. More than half of its land is mountainous and most of it is forest of pine, oak and cedar, with a semi-warm, semi-humid climate and summer rains. Its name comes from Atenquilitl, meaning place surrounded by water. Atenguillo is one of 16 Jalisco municipalities inside the raicilla denomination of origin, granted in 2019.

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