Mexico: In 1927 after the Mexican revolution the story of the antecesor of the Doña engracia distillery began after the cristero rebels engaged in armed confligth against the government. Señor Jesus Ramirez better know as Mayor Grimaldo, was making history by supplying the rebels with his hand crafted agave distill. This kept the spirit of the revels high to figth for what they believe.

France: Now a Fourth-generation family business in Mexico, Andres Gerard and his 3 sons continue the traditions and recipes given by his father to continue in the drinking business with quality products.

THE HISTORY

Mexico: In 1927 after the Mexican revolution the story of the antecesor of the Doña engracia distillery began after the cristero rebels engaged in armed confligth against the government. Señor Jesus Ramirez better know as Mayor Grimaldo, was making history by supplying the rebels with his hand crafted agave distill. This kept the spirit of the revels high to figth for what they believe.

France: Now a Fourth-generation family business in Mexico, Andres Gerard and his 3 sons continue the traditions and recipes given by his father to continue in the drinking business with quality products.

La Hacienda

Seventeen years after the Mexican Revolution, the story of Doña Engracia began. In 1927 the Cristero Rebels engaged in armed conflict against the government and anti-clerical articles contained within the Mexican Constitution of 1917.

While the Cristeros were making political history, Señor Jesus Ramirez, better known as Mayor Grimaldo, was making history of his own by supplying the rebels with his hand crafted tequila. Made from the agave plants grown in the mountains of Jalisco, his 100% Blue Agave Tequila helped lift the spirits of the rebels during the two-year uprising.

His recipes have been passed down three generations- through his wife Engracia, then to her daughter, and finally to her granddaughter (also named Engracia). Nearly 50 years later, granddaughter Engracia married Señor Carlos Gerard.

Señor Gerard’s grandfather had come to Mexico from France, bringing his family’s mastery of the French wine-making industry. You might say that two great marriages were formed – Engracia and Carlos, and the marriage of great winemaking and quality tequila producing traditions