The Chefs, Artists, and Tequila Makers of Guadalajara

The Patr贸n Hacienda was built in 2002. The company funds two local orphanages, has an on-site chapel and a shuttle service for its employees, and supports numerous environmental initiatives, including a reverse-osmosis system that recycles water from tequila production and, earlier this year, a reforestation effort that involved planting 10,000 trees.

At the Patr贸n Hacienda, a Spanish-colonial-inspired campus and dis颅tillery in the high plateaus outside the city that serves as the company鈥檚 headquarters, Bravo is a hornero, cutting up 80-pound agave hearts for baking and distilling. Rather than grow their own, Patr贸n buys its agave from area farmers, and hundreds of plants are delivered each week. To make tequila, the hearts are baked in large ovens, then crushed with an ancient tahona mill or a slab of volcanic rock to extract the juice. The liquid is then fermented, distilled, and, in the case of some specialty tequilas, aged in handmade barrels for more than a year.
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Cobain runs Patr贸n鈥檚 compost and recycling operations. The distillery uses the discarded fibers from agave processing鈥攔oughly 30,000 tons a year鈥攖o fertilize farms in the region and a large vegetable garden on the Hacienda property that helps feed the company鈥檚 1,600 on-site employees. Cobain mountain-bikes in the trail systems of Bosque La Primavera鈥攁n eco颅logical preserve 45 min颅utes outside Guadalajara. 鈥淚t鈥檚 known as the lungs of the city,鈥 he says.
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Urrea, who works for the production company Green Is Good, surfs as often as he can, especially on the Pacific breaks around Sayulita and San Pancho, an hour west by plane. The best food in Guadalajara? 鈥淚 颅Latina shouldn鈥檛 be missed,鈥 he says.
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As a sports PR agent, fitness adviser, and athlete鈥攕he recently competed in the 颅Xterra Race in Tapalpa鈥擲erur spends a lot of time mountain biking and trail running at Barranca de Huentit谩n, a nature reserve in a 16-mile-long canyon northeast of the city. Then she refuels at Tacos Providencia. 鈥淚 want to teach people that they can have a healthy life, but with balance,鈥 she says.
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Santillanes has played the saxophone in jazz festivals from Montreal to Vienna. But once a week, the Guadalajara native still performs on Chapultepec Avenue, which hosts a street festival every Wednesday.
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Williams has worked with some of the best eateries in town. He鈥檚 seen here at Hueso. 鈥淓ste Norte Cafe, which offers organic products from the Villa de Patos ranch, is also worth a visit,鈥 he says.
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For as long as anyone can remember, Manuel worked as a jimador, harvesting agave grown around Guadalajara鈥攚here the plant is said to be larger and better tasting than anywhere else in the world鈥攆or tequila. Manuel now works in the gardens at the Patr贸n Hacienda.
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Fonseca grew up riding horses and tending sheep in Guadalajara鈥檚 highlands. 鈥淚鈥檓 still a cowgirl sometimes,鈥 she says, though she鈥檚 now Patr贸n鈥檚 executive tour host and brings restaurant owners and chefs from all over the world to the Hacienda. The company produces roughly two million cases of tequila per year.
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