Wilfrido García Sánchez

Wilfrido García Sanchez, was born in 1989 and stepped into his grandfather’s palenque as a teenager to make his first batch in 2004. Risking everything, Wili and his brother Ramón left shortly after accompanying Elvia, their older sister. They saved money from their time working in chicken processing plants and other gigs in the Southern United States, and boys returned home as young men ready to work the agave that their mother, Margarita, had been planting in their absence. Waiting for them, as well, were participatory rolls in the cooperative Grupo Productor Logoche, founded in 2008 by their mother, uncles, and neighbors.

Soil types: colorada, roja, cascajudo, blanca, negra

Oven: 10-ton capacity, conical, earthen oven

Mashing: machete, axe, and shredder

Fermentation: 4 Montezuma cypress sabino wood tanks. 1200-liter capacity.

Distillation: Los Carnales use two different copper pot stills, one with a 250-liter capacity, and the other, slightly larger at 300 liters.