For maestros and palenqueros
Your name, on the front
We are looking for one maestro family to partner with. This page comes first, written before we have signed anyone, so you can read the whole proposal before a single name is on it. It is an open hand.
- LOTEbatch
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- AGAVEagave
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- PUEBLOvillage
- ⟨confirmed on signing⟩
- MÉTODOmethod
- Olla de barro (style)
- ALTITUDaltitude
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What we’re proposing
Credit as loud as our own name
Your name, at wordmark weight
The family name will be set in the same typeface and weight as our wordmark, on the label and on the web. Not fine print, never the back.
Pay written down
“Fair” gets agreed first, as a number, in writing. Only then does “fairly paid” get printed. Until that day, the label will carry the verifiable line: bottled in partnership with the family.
Consent that stays yours
Naming is your decision, ongoing and revocable, from the day we sign to any day after. Withdraw it whenever you choose. The label falls back to a role credit, with no fight.
The proof
The parts still blank
We could have filled those fields with a village name and a family that sounds right. We didn’t. Because none of it is true yet, the empty ledger is the most important thing on the site.
Style versus origin
We distill toward a method
An olla de barro, in the style of Santa Catarina Minas, is a way of making we aim at, never a home we claim. The margin of this site says the same thing: a plain stepped rule, never the Mitla step-fret. That motif is Zapotec patrimony. One family’s blessing is not the whole community’s consent.
A real commercializer
The unglamorous parts, done correctly
The mezcal would be bottled under your own CRM certification and NOM, or under a co-responsibility agreement. We carry the rest. Importer of record and compliant U.S. distribution, with the government warning and the ABV line rendered correctly the first time.
A presentation worthy of the bottle
Clay is the whole system. The photography stays documentary, hands and material, shot only with a signed release. No stock craft, no sombreros, no invented folklore.
Contact
Let’s talk, slowly, in your language
There is no form and no deadline. We’re glad to talk in Spanish, and glad to move at the pace trust takes. We are holding this chair for the right family.
Hablamos español. Escríbenos con calma. No hay formulario que llenar ni nada que firmar hoy.
hello@todaymezcal.com. A real person reads every note.