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Hortensia Hernández Martínez
Master Mezcalera / Co-Owner, Mezcal Desde La Eternidad
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Portrait of Hortensia Hernández Martínez
i. Biography
Hortensia Hernández Martínez is a master mezcalera from Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, where she helps lead a women-owned, women-led family distillery rooted in a five-generation mezcal heritage. She is master distiller/master mezcalera and credits collaborations with her daughters on limited-edition bottlings, while Bowler Wine notes that she and her daughters took over the family business after the death of her husband, master mezcalero Juan Hernández Méndez, in 2020.
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