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Boutique hotels, private transport, and Palenque visits across the Central Valleys.
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Private, boutique immersion trips into Oaxaca's Palenques, an intimate journey into Oaxacan culture and tradition, with visits reserved just for your group.
Oaxaca Immersions designs private mezcal journeys for couples, solo travelers, and small groups who want more than a tasting room. Fly into Oaxaca City, settle into a boutique hotel we’ve chosen for you, then head into the Central Valleys to meet the families who make mezcal the way it has always been made, culminating in a private visit to Rosario’s Palenque.
Land in Oaxaca City. We meet you at the airport and get you checked into a boutique hotel.
Private transport, working Palenques, and the people behind the mezcal.
A featured day at her Palenque, the relationship every trip is built around.
Understand mezcal the way most people never get to.
Agave roasted underground, crushed by hand, fermented in the open air, and distilled the old way, walked through by Rosario and her team, on a visit reserved for your group alone. It’s the relationship every itinerary is built around, alongside other working Palenques across the valleys.
Jacqui Thompson has spent more than a decade building direct relationships with the farmers and distillers behind Mexico’s agave spirits, first as co-founder of Revel Spirits, working hands-on with producers in the Morelos region, and now as co-founder of Las Melodías de la Luna Mezcal, partnered with master distiller Rosario Ángeles in Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca.
Oaxaca Immersions grew out of that relationship, turning years spent learning the region and its producers into trips built for guests who want the same access.
Every trip is private, fully hosted, and planned personally, by phone, around your dates and group. Explore the options below, then reach out and we’ll build your itinerary together.
Personal relationships with Rosario and other producer families, with visits kept private to your group.
Hotel, transport, meals, and guides, handled start to finish.
Never a shared van, never a crowd.
Every partner hand-picked and trusted.
Mezcal is a distilled spirit made from agave, native to Oaxaca and other regions of Mexico. It’s the original agave spirit, the traditional method all others (including tequila) descend from, made from many different agave varieties and traditionally roasted underground, giving it a distinct smoky character. No two batches taste exactly alike.
A Palenque is a traditional mezcal distillery, often family-run, where agave is roasted, crushed, fermented, and distilled by hand using centuries-old methods. It’s the heart of every trip we plan.
Every trip starts with a conversation. Reach out through the inquiry form or give us a call, and we’ll talk through your dates, group, and what you’re hoping to experience. From there, we’ll build a proposal made specifically for you.
Yes, a deposit secures your dates, with the balance due before you arrive. We’ll walk you through the exact schedule once your itinerary is set.
We run trips primarily September through May, avoiding Oaxaca’s rainy summer season. December and the Day of the Dead season (late October into early November) are especially popular, so it’s worth booking those windows early.
Boutique hotel, private ground transportation, Palenque visits, and a dedicated host from the moment you land to the moment you leave. Meals and tastings are built into the itinerary we design for you.
Every tasting is a small, food-paired pour, never a heavy one. And you’ll never need to get behind the wheel; all of our ground transportation is handled by professional, contracted drivers.
Always. Every itinerary, whether it’s a couple’s getaway, a larger group, or an incentive trip, is planned one trip at a time around your dates and what you want to experience.
Tell us who’s coming and when. We will build the rest.
Start Your InquiryTell us a bit about the trip you have in mind, and we’ll follow up personally to talk through dates, group size, and pricing.
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Rosario came to mezcal without a family tradition behind her. She learned the craft from the community of mezcaleros in Santa Catarina Minas, then built a palenque of her own in 2019, distilling her first batch the following spring.
Every bottle is made the ancestral way: agave roasted underground in an earthen pit, crushed by hand with a wooden mallet, fermented in open wood vats, and distilled in clay pots she tends herself. It’s a process that hasn’t changed in generations, and the result is award-winning mezcal that’s earned her a reputation as one of the finest producers in the region.
It’s the relationship every Oaxaca Immersions trip is built around.