Don Alfonso Jiménez Rosales, from 1934 to 1950, being a shareholder of Tequila Herradura S.A. performed the marketing activities of Tequila Herradura, with his cousins the Rosales Family.
After a family problem, Don Alfonso left Tequila Herradura and with the premise of manufacturing a supreme quality tequila in 1950 he created El Caballito Cerrero, El que no necesita herraduras [The Untamed Horse, the one that does not need horseshoes], a Caballito Cerrero is a wild, strong animal that can not be tamed.
In that same year, he acquired the Santa Rita Factory built by his father-in-law Maximiano Hernández in 1873, located in Amatitán, Jalisco in the Barranca de Tecuane, this ravine has been and will always be the home of the Caballito Cerrero.
In 1968, he founded Tequila El Caballito Cerrero, Sociedad Anónima; his son Don Claudio Jiménez Hernández following the family tradition, dedicated his life to manufacturing Tequila Caballito Cerrero in the Santa Rita Factory.
Currently, the Jiménez family continues to manufacture Caballito Cerrero in the Santa Rita Factory with the designation of Destilado de Agave with the tradition taught to them by their ancestors, who were Mezcal and Tequila producers and Agave growers, for fifteen generations, a tradition that is constituted by an absolute respect to the quality of a product 100% of Agave, doing it with the strictest surveillance of processes and using mature and sazon (stage that the agave adquires a few year after it quiota) agaves and only of the region of Amatitán.
Caballito Cerrero is the result of knowledge of generations and the geographical conditions of the Santa Rita Factory located in a fertile ravine and fed by a spring of natural mineral water that is used to cook, ferment and distill, all this makes Caballito Cerrero a product of unique and unparalleled quality.
The Santa Rita Factory where Caballito Cerrero is produced was founded in 1873, is an example of what back then represented the advances of the Industrial Revolution and the efforts of Maximiano Hernández an enterprising and visionary man who built a real industrial facility located in Barranca de Tecuane, using both elements of modernity, as those that the ancestral experience and the chosen place provided. The location of Santa Rita is complex and is due to the proximity to the spring of natural mineral water from which it is supplied. Santa Rita, Patron of the impossible.
Santa Rita is a big rectangular nave with a total area of over three thousand square meters built on a tepetate stone table; one of its walls is stone carved and the other one is an aqueduct; it has seven meters cast iron French columns, rail beams and brick Catalan vaulted ceilings. It still has the remains of the original tahona, semi circularly carved in the stone, three brick ovens, a platform for stills also structured with cast iron beams and bolted suspenders, an internal transport system with rails and two cars manufactured by Krupp to move the cooked mezcal; as well as a steam engine.
The Santa Rita Factory is the same one in which now the descendants of Mr. Maximiano Hernández Orozco manufactured mezcal wine, tequila and currently Distillate of Agave, always under the highest quality principle of conservation.
More about our history: www.museocjv.com/publicacionesmcjv.html
For us, it is very important that you have all the information necessary to know when your Caballito Cerrero was made and bottled.
MÉXICO
TCC DE AMATITÁN S.A. DE C.V.
Barranca de Tecuane Sin Número Municipio de Amatitán, Jalisco.
Tel. 33 3616 0023
USA
HEAVY MéTL Premium Imports, LLC
Austin, Texas 78758
www.heavymetl.com
EUROPA
RINGSHERUM UG
Käthe-Niederkirchner-Str. 15
10497, Berlín
Tel. (+49) 1522 306 8638
Santa Rita Factory
Barranca de Tecuane Sin Número
Municipio de Amatitán, Jalisco CP 45380
info@caballitocerrero.com
Telephone
(+52) 33 36160023
