Armonico Gin

Originally from the small town of San Juan del Río in the state Querétaro, not far from Mexico City, master distiller Andrés Valverde began producing beverage alcohol (brewing beer) at the tender age of sixteen. Just a few years later, he evolved to distillation. After studying and apprenticing in Chicago, Andrés and his brother cofounded La Insoportable (meaning “the unbearable,” inspired by Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being) Brewery and Distillery to provide a brick-and-mortar HQ for exploration of and experimentation with the liquid arts and culture of Mexico.

In 2017, Andrés finalized the recipe for Armónico (“Harmonic”) Gin, a gin that aims to marry his modern creative sensibilities, fascination with other spirits around the world, and a deeply idiosyncratic sense of Mexican heritage through flavor and aroma.

Armónico is distilled using what’s referred to as the “multi-shot” process of gin or bitter production. Multiple distillations of distinct botanicals or botanical blends are made individually, allowing the distillers to achieve varying levels of concentration to use as components in a master blend, which is the gin itself. Some are used in substantial volume; some are used as cautiously as seasoning.

Distilled on a 300-liter copper pot still using thirty-two botanicals (including many that are endemic only to Mexico), the finished 50% ABV (100-proof) Dry Mexican Gin is both compellingly unique and satisfyingly familiar. Armónico Gin was built to represent Mexico on the global stage of the world’s great gins.