The Places · Mexico
Tequila
Made By profiles 7 places in Tequila, spanning winery, distillery — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Winery
Jose Cuervo (La Rojeña)
Tequila, Mexico
La Rojeña is the oldest active distillery in Latin America, operating continuously in the town of Tequila since 1758. Awarded Pearl 3 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, it sits at the top tier of the region's distillery visit circuit, a reference point for understanding how industrial scale and heritage coexist in the agave spirits category.
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02.Winery
Casa Orendain (La Mexicana)
Tequila, Mexico
Casa Orendain (La Mexicana) sits on Tabasco 208 in Tequila's centro histórico, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige recognition in 2025. The property occupies a different register than the industrial-scale distillery tours that define most visitor itineraries in the town. For anyone reading the production geography of the Jalisco highlands through the spirits poured here, this address carries real editorial weight.
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03.Winery
El Llano (Arette)
Tequila, Mexico
El Llano, home to the Arette distillery, sits at the centre of Tequila's historic production district and earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The facility operates along the Fábrica de Tequila El Llano address on Silverio Nuñez, placing it within walking distance of the town's oldest agave-spirit institutions. For visitors focused on aging programmes and barrel-aged expression, it represents one of the more substantive stops in Jalisco.
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04.Winery
El Tequileño (La Guarreña)
Tequila, Mexico
El Tequileño (La Guarreña) holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating from 2025, placing it among the recognized producers in Tequila's increasingly stratified distillery tier. Located at Ramón Corona 155 in the town centre, La Guarreña represents a producer operating with credentials that sit above the entry-level distillery visit market. For anyone mapping the serious distilleries of Jalisco's agave heartland, this is a reference stop.
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05.Winery
La Perseverancia (Casa Sauza)
Tequila, Mexico
La Perseverancia is the historic distillery at the heart of Casa Sauza, one of Tequila's founding producer families. Holding a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award for 2025, the property on Francisco Javier Sauza Mora sits within the town's colonial core, offering a direct encounter with agave distillation as it has been practiced in Jalisco for generations.
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06.Winery
La Cofradía
Tequila, Mexico
La Cofradía sits on Calle Juárez in the heart of Tequila, Jalisco, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, a mark that places it among a select tier of recognised addresses in this agave-country town. The setting puts guests within the productive core of Mexico's most documented spirits region, where distillery visits and dining intersect in ways few other towns in the country can replicate.
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07.Distillery
Tequila Fortaleza
Tequila, Mexico
Tequila Fortaleza sits on the main strip of Mexico's most famous agave town, holding a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025. The distillery occupies the historic Sauza estate and operates as one of the region's more deliberately small-scale producers, positioning it against craft-oriented peers rather than the high-volume operations that dominate the town's output.
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