Caballito Cerrero Chato Blanco Destilado de Agave

Caballito Cerrero has a cult-like following among tequila aficionados worldwide. The true die-hards who visit Guadalajara search high and low for these bottlings. The brand was created in 1950 by Don Alfonso Jiménez Rosales when he separated from Tequila Herradura – a company he co-founded – feeling frustrated by a lack of innovation. He decided to do his own thing and named his project Caballito Cerrero, meaning “the untamed horse”. But he took it even a step further, with the brand’s mantra states “El que no necesita Herraduras” – “the one who doesn’t need horseshoes.”

In 2018, the family made a bold decision: they stopped calling their product tequila. They did this in defiance of the industrialization of the category, choosing instead to respect the traditional growing and distillation methods of tequila’s history, particularly within the Amatitán region where Caballito Cerrero is made.

This bottling uses 100% Chato agave – a subvarietal of Agave angustifolia endemic to Jalisco, commonly known in Oaxaca as Espadín. It’s one of many types of agave historically used to make tequila before the industry standardized around blue weber. Caballito Cerrero didn’t want to exclusively use blue weber because their partner farmers also grow Chato, and they love the end results with that agave.