Juan Hernandez Luis, San Pedro Taviche

Handing down knowledge in the cultivation of agaves and their processing is vital for the survival of the artisanal mezcal. Don Juan, who is a fifth-generation palenquero and is now preparing the handover to his sons Margarito, Agustin and Laurentino, knows this well.
We meet him as he is in the process of building a new distillery.