2024 Revenue Share declaration & transparency: 15K USD from 2024 wholesales re-distributed to 6 families as a % correlation to each family’s part/contribution to the 7th Series of mezcales. Fund re-distribution and usage as follows: Reina Sanchez 21% use: legal and court fees for the titles to different lands left to her Berta Vasquez 31% … Continue reading 15K 2024 Revenue share declaration
Author: alxwyt
El Arroqueño y Mexicano: Del vivero al campo
1000 magueyes arroqueño and 1000 magueyes mexicano, transplanted from the Vivero of Luis Antonio Santiago, teacher & campesino mezcalero of San Luis Vicente Coatlan, to tierra ejidal managed and controlled by Alejandrina & Nicolas Hernandez of Rio Seco Zoquitlan. Transplanted in 2023, accelerating with la 2024 Temporada de Lluvia. Fotos by Nicolas Hernandez Jr.
aesthetics of actions – rezpiral since 2017
rezpiral. since 2017, in support and defense of traditional mezcal. The art, the craft, the biodiversity, and the people who uphold it all with work. Holding steady. since 2017, 66,000 agave, from seed, gifted & $86,000 US dollars from sales profit redirected back to producer families. 2017 $1,725 2018 $4,655 2019 $15,000 2020 $11,200 2021 … Continue reading aesthetics of actions – rezpiral since 2017
Arts Release! “In the Eye of the Toad there is a Seed”
In the Eye of the Toad there is a Seed, produced and created by rezpiral founder/operator Alex White, 2024 First edition print run of 1,000 July 2024 From the scorching dry seasoned mountains of Oaxaca Mexico down into a myriad of life and awakenings with the voice of the underground river. A collection of moments … Continue reading Arts Release! “In the Eye of the Toad there is a Seed”
Alejandrina&Nicholás Hernández – video del palenque
Video shot and edited by Nicolás Hernández (II) Grabado y editado por Nicolás Hernández (II)
Berta Vasquez & Rezpiral: Agave Heritage Festival 24 and educational tour
This year was Berta Vasquez's first trip outside of Mexico where she presented herself, her work and her Campesino Mezcales in Arizona and New Mexico alongside me Alex White, and the practice of Rezpiral. In all we presented to and connected with 9 different audiences in Arizona and New Mexico, sharing a range of mezcales, … Continue reading Berta Vasquez & Rezpiral: Agave Heritage Festival 24 and educational tour
Rezpiral 24/25: The Dream of a River
Upcoming collection & releases: 22 batches selected 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 … Continue reading Rezpiral 24/25: The Dream of a River
2023 Revenue share transparency
Happy to announce that Rezpiral has realized it's 7th consecutive resource share with producer families!!! 2023 Revenue share: $15,000 USD redistributed to 6 partner producer families: Reyna Sanchez 21%, Berta Vasquez 31%, Simeon Ramirez 15%, Abel Martinez 11% Luis Antonio 8% use, Alejandrina & Nicolas Hernandez 15% Receipt letter to producers: El proyecto Rezpiral … Continue reading 2023 Revenue share transparency
“Processing”, the next series
2023 Agave gifting/transplanting
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
