OUR NAME

909 is pronounced “Ga Gayua Ga” in Zapotec. The number 0 for the Zapotec people is a sacred number because being a civilization with a polytheist religion, it has 9 principal gods, while day number 9 of each month is the day of water. Their knowledge is reflected upon their use of number 0. Only advanced civilizations know of its existence.

Their 9 main gods were:

1. Totec: the most important god, he who ruled them
2. Tlatlauhaqui: god of the sun
3. Pitao Cocijo: god of thunder and of rain
4. Pitao Cozobi: god of tender corn
5. Coqui Xee: god of everything not created
6. Coqui Bezelao: god of the dead
7. Pitao Cozana: god of the ancestors
8. Quetzalcoatl: god of the winds
9. Xonzxi Quecuya: god of earthquakes

The Zapotecs had 2 calendars, a civil one with 365 days which lets us glimpse at their knowledge level and scientific development. They also had a religious calendar and in this one each of its 20 days had its own name. Day number 9 was Niza Queza, which means water. A people like the Zapotec appreciated the importance of water and what it means for life, for with out it there can be none.

Glyphs for Niza and Queza:

With this name, Mezcal 909, we want to render homage to one of the most important civilizations in Mesoamerica, which occupied regions of the south of México in the period between 500 BC and 950 AC approximately. And with the presence of the most emblematic temple of Oaxaca, that of Saint Dominic of Guzmán, and the agave contained in the bottle, in the image of 909, we want to symbolize the combination of a Zapotec process, as was the cooking of the maguey, with a Spanish one as is the distillation process, not known in America until their arrival to the New Spain.

Mezcal 909 is produced in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in Santiago Matatlán, crib or this Mexican distilled beverage. Its production is artisanal which allows us to offer the connoisseurs of Mezcal, a drink of great quality that keeps the original process and flavors that have been produced for 400 years by the Maestros Mezcaleros of the region.

We have the honor to offer a Mezcal produced by one of the few Maestras Mezcaleras in México, Leonor Altamirano, who comes from a family tradition in the production of this beverage, thus keeping in her Mezcal production the family secrets which they have passed along generations in her family until our times.