October 30th, 2025 / San Dionisio, Oaxaca

Zancudo in Food & Wine: The Mezcal That Toasts to Life and Memory

Some stories find their way into the world quietly. Others are poured — slowly, deliberately — like a fine mezcal swirled in the glass before the first sip.
Food & Wine en Español recently told our story in a feature that captured something we have always believed: that Zancudo is not just a spirit. It is a living record of the land, of six generations of knowledge passed down through hands, and of a culture that refuses to be forgotten.

Zancudo celebrates life, the earth, and the Zapotec heritage — a distillate that honors the past while looking toward the future.

The piece explores who we are, where we come from, and why every bottle of Zancudo carries more than mezcal. It carries memory. The kind that exists in the smoke of roasting agave, in the rhythm of a wooden mallet against the piña, in the silence of a still in the early morning hours in the Sierra Juárez.
We are deeply grateful to the editors at Food & Wine en Español for the care and thoughtfulness they brought to our story. If you read Spanish — or even if you don’t — we invite you to visit the full feature. Some things transcend language.

Read the full feature at Food & Wine en Español →