Distilleria artigianale Mezcal in un autentico villaggio zapoteco

César designed an amazing day for a party of 2. This is an exclusive, high value, small party tour!!! César attends to every detail, adjusting on the fly to optimize our personal experience. César makes a point of engaging family and the local community: Mother and girlfriend are fantastic cooks and smiling hostesses. Dad plays the sax for wedding celebrations and multi-week funeral processions (he’s always busy), brother is an artist and a painter… friend operates an ancestral mescal distillery, uncle loved sharing his artisanal distillery… He knows the shepherds, they appreciated us stopping for a bit and offering a shot of Mezcal! César and a local picked us up and dropped us off at our Oaxaca City Hotel. We returned just in time to join a Street Parade with our bottle of Mezcal!!! If u want to get outside the city and immerse in an intimate Zapotec experience, book this activity. I highly recommend spending the day with César and his ecosystem!!!

Our mezcal tour was absolutely amazing! From start to finish, César was an incredibly knowledgeable, friendly, and flexible guide. We had the chance to customize the itinerary to fit our interests, and César was so understanding when we made adjustments along the way. Before this tour, I was never a fan of mezcal, but after learning so much and trying different varieties, I now love can say I truly enjoy a good mezcal. The mezcal tastings were eye-opening and we learned so much. The pulque tasting was also delicious and it was a great way to start the day. The whole day was absolutely amazing! Cesar and his family are so welcoming, and we truly felt like we were treated as friends, not just tourists. There was not a single moment we felt rushed- we were at our own pace on our personalized and private tour, going at our pace. This tour was unforgettable and easily one of our favorite days in Oaxaca. Highly recommend this tour with César!

Two friends and I were interested in learning more about small-batch Mezcal production and gravitated to this tour over larger bus tours. We loved having our private guide, Cesar, who invited us into his family’s home for two meals, let us try our hand at rolling a tortilla onto a comal, showed us his uncle’s agave farm, his cousin’s small-batch mezcal distillery and a friend’s larger, but still small-scale, Mezcal distillery. We got to ride in a tuk-tuk and walk and around agave fields. Cesar took very good care of us and i highly recommend this tour.

César, the guide and visionary behind Yudiza Tours is fantastic. He cares deeply for his community and is proud to share his life and family with visitors. I’ve rarely found tour experiences like this, and highly recommend it. My wife and I did a day-long mezcal distillery tour, which was much more than just about mezcal. César grew up in San Dionisio Ocotepec and so is familiar with this beautiful area of Oaxaca. We learned about the town, the culture and daily life for Zapotec community’s like his, and got to meet his family. Pick-up and drop-off in Oaxaca City was seamless and the drive out to the country was beautiful. César’s mother and their family friends cooked a delicious meal in a lovely traditional setting in their home. For the mezcal, César took us to both ancestral and artisanal distilleries. Although there was no production happening at this time (it was a very dry time in the season), the producers explained everything, showed us the sites, and provided generous tastings. We also got to walk around in the agave fields. (If you want to be guaranteed to see production, you probably have to go to an industrial distillery, but then you’d miss out on a lot of other interesting things; it’s well worth it to see the smaller production and to support these local distillers; from what I can see from other people who have done this tour, it’s very common that you do get to see and even participate in the production). So, if you want to really get a sense of life outside the big city, to taste some great mezcal and to meet the local people who make it, take a tour with César! If we were staying longer, we would have considered some of the other experiences he offers, too. Thanks César!!

Amazing tour with César and his family! Definitely recommended if you want something unique and personalized. Not a package tour at all (I mean this in the best way possible). Learned so much about mezcal at three different distilleries (all friends of César), ate a great lunch with his family, played with his dogs, explored his village, and got a ride back to Oaxaca. A very special day.

We had an amazing day in a zapotec village. Everything was adjusted to our wishes (where needed). We were picked up in Oaxaca, the family in the village cooked for us on a fireplace and we learned a lot during the whole day. Everyone we met was extremely friendly and it was a very personalized experience. Highly recommend!

They do not offer options for a single visitor, very frustrating, what shall someone do if he/she comes alone?!

Caesar was a really good guide. We went to a mezcal distillery and to his home where his mother cooked us breakfast and lunch, a truly fantastic experience!

Cesar provided an amazing experience. If you are looking for an authentic day with someone who is willing to share his culture, his home, his community and do so with an open heart you couldn’t ask for more. Cesar is an excellent steward of Zapotec community and is trying change things for the better. The personal, artisanal mezcal your, the meals with his family and community members were all excellent. Thank you, Cesar

Cesar was a fantastic guide, while his family and everyone we met during the day were absolutely great and so welcoming. Seeing the distilleries was a very interesting experience, and even better to see it done on a smaller scale with the best quality mezcal we have ever had. Food was fantastic, mezcal was brilliant. Highly highly recommend!