Upcoming releases: 22 select batches from 6 campesino mezcaleros/mezcaleras - Abel Martinez, Berta Vasquez, Simeon Ramirez, Reina Sanchez, Antonio Santiago, Alejandrina & Nicolas Hernandez. Artworks on the water ecologies that sustain the lands and villages, the life of each one of these bottles. Artwork and passages are drawings I created over the past two years, … Continue reading Rezpiral 24/25: The Dream of a River

When Ignacio “Nacho” Jimenez, the co-owner of Mexican American cocktail bar Superbueno in New York City’s East Village, looks for new agave spirits, he focuses on small family producers with an ethical and equitable approach to production. So when Jimenez met Alex White, the founder of Rezpiral, five years ago, he felt an immediate connection. … Continue reading Seven Fifty – Daily Picks: Tobaziche by Simeon Ramirez

REZIST -  research // creation // journeying September/October Opportunities for 1 or 2 week studio home stay rezidency here in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, during the months of September and October. This residency understands the mezcal-campesino as an end result & fierce example from the many people and worlds, including yours, that continue to … Continue reading REZIST – residency: research // creation // journeying

This year, Rezpiral has collaborated with mezcalero campesino and school teacher Luis Antonio Santiago of San Vicente Coatlan who runs an agave nursery where he grows agave from seed. 8,700 agave of these agave, of the subvarietals Arroqueño and Mexicano, were purchased and gifted to different campesino mezcalero families - mostly with whom Rezpiral has … Continue reading 2023 Agave gifting/transplanting

  April 21, 2023 Every year, I take good time to think through where I'm at with a handful of campesino mezcaleros with whom I've worked and befriended over the course of eight years. I think long and hard about aesthetics, mediums, ideas - lots of things really. To what this project or practice, known … Continue reading Artworks – 2023

$18,421 or 30% of the post-cost profit of 2022 redistributed as a % correlated to each family's part/contribution to the 7th Series of mezcals. Fund re-distribution as follows: Simeon Ramirez 14% Berta Vasquez 24% Aureliano Hernández 12% Abel Martínez 8% Reina Sanchez 16% Christina & Tio Chico (RIP) 4% Alejandrina & Nicolás Hernández 14% Luis … Continue reading 2022 Profit share – $18,421 to 8 families

A thank you to all those that visited, gave life & support to the Vivero Amigos del Maguey y la Biodiversidad, or simply supported from afar, between 2018 and 2021. Over these years, 47,000 agaves of all types, and mostly from seed, came to life that wouldn't have otherwise. That and a sterile piece of … Continue reading El Vivero/Nursery project 2018-2021: THANK YOU

21st Century Wine Co. October program ITEM 3: REZPIRAL MEZCAL - Producer Profit Share 2022 "Purchase any 3 bottles and receive one bottle Alejandrina & Nicolas - Espadín (Multiples ok) (10% of all program profits will be re-distributed to the producers of the Rezpiral group. This is a huge help to producer families and a … Continue reading 21st Century Wine Co. join the 2022 profit share