Siembra Valles Tequila

Siembra Valles is the lowland-Jalisco line in David Suro's Siembra Spirits portfolio — bottled at Destilería Cascahuín (NOM 1123), the Rosales family's multi-generational operation in El Arenal. Suro built Siembra Spirits to fight back against the additive-heavy, marketing-driven mainstream tequila industry, and Valles is his statement on what an agave-forward lowland blanco should actually taste like. Every bottle is additive-free (no glycerin, no sugar syrup, no caramel coloring, no oak essence — the certifications most "premium" tequila bottles quietly hide).

Before launching Siembra Spirits, Philadelphia-based David Suro spent decades importing tequila and running Tequilas Restaurant — long enough to watch the category lose its way under industrial-scale players. His response was to build a brand that surfaces what his favorite traditional Jalisco distilleries already do: agave farmed for maturity (8+ years), brick-oven roasting, fermentation with native yeast, double-distillation in copper pot stills, and zero additives at bottling. The Siembra portfolio splits across regional terroir — Valles for lowland (Cascahuín), Alteño for highland (La Alteña), and Ancestral for the most traditional methods (underground roasting, hand-mallet crushing).

Siembra Valles is bottled at Tequila Cascahuín, S.A. (NOM 1123) — the Rosales family distillery in El Arenal, in business since 1904. The Rosales house style emphasizes lowland Jalisco character: clay-rich volcanic soils, hotter days, agave with a more savory + earthy backbone than the floral-fruit profile of highland fruit from G4 or La Alteña. Every Siembra Valles expression carries that lowland fingerprint: cooked agave forward, white pepper, mineral salinity, and an oily texture from tahona crushing on certain releases.

Suro's Siembra Valles is sometimes mislabeled online as highland tequila or attributed to the Camarena family — neither is right. NOM 1123 (Cascahuín) is a lowland distillery in El Arenal (Los Valles region, hence the brand name). The owner-operators are the Rosales family, not Camarena. The Camarenas of G4 and Tapatío are family-linked to Cascahuín through generations of Jalisco industry overlap, but they're a different family, a different distillery, a different terroir altogether.