Legend has it that, many years ago, as many as there are stars in the sky, a great storm surprised the Nahua people of Jalisco. That night, the sky was covered with clouds and a bolt of lightning coming straight from the very goddess Mayahuel fell on the fields of agaves. They burned for days.

After the storm, the wind brought a delicious aroma from the burned agaves. The fire had produced a sweet, aromatic honey with an extraordinary, almost heavenly, flavour. Thus the Nahua discovered that those plants held inside an exquisite liquid and, as an offering to the goddess Mayahuel, this ambrosia became the official drink of ceremonies and celebrations.

Much later, when the Spanish arrived in Mexico, a native woman served as interpreter, advisor and intermediary for Hernán Cortés. She showed him all their customs and traditions, including the popular drink of the gods. The Spanish settlers, who knew well how to distil alcohol, soon applied their techniques to the fermented agave juice, and that was how the first tequila was made. This brought the native girl and Hernán Cortés so close together that their love made her betray her people and she became the mother of a new Mexican race, the Mestizo race.
She is known as Malinche, a rebel who changed history, as authentic a legend as that of the sweet taste of the agave.