Oscar Hernández Santiago

Oscar Hernández Santiago is a fourth-generation maestro mezcalero from Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, where he was born and raised and began working in his parents’ mezcal palenque at a young age. His mother taught him to make mezcal when he was 14, and he later became the distiller and equal partner behind Gracias a Dios, a mezcal and agave gin brand produced in Santiago Matatlán.