About

While learning to cook traditional farm-to-table cuisine in 2007, NY-based Michelin star chef and mezcal connoisseur TJ Steele found the source provider for an excellent Espadin mezcal at the Don Isaac Distillery, owned and operated by the 6th generation Jimenez Mendez family.

The Jimenez Mendez family has made mezcal in copper pot stills using the family traditions and recipe. Patriarch Octavio Jimenez Monterroza presides over each batch made by his children Jose Isaac, Beatriz and Octavio as the family works as a collective unit.

El Buho, Spanish for “the Owl”, is revered in Mexican culture as the spiritual link between the living and the dead, carrying souls from the living world to the after life.