Lewis Hamilton and the agave biologist Iván Saldaña, working out of Casa Lumbre in Mexico.
Lewis Hamilton drank tequila, and wanted something to reach for on the nights he was not drinking. He worked on it for a long time before anything reached a shelf, and the people he took it to were Casa Lumbre, a Mexican spirits house with a record of building brands from nothing.
Iván Saldaña is the reason it holds together. He wrote a doctorate in biology on agave species, co-founded Casa Lumbre in 2011, and has spent his working life on the plants of Jalisco. Hamilton, Saldaña and the investment firm Copper launched Almave together in October 2023.
Pernod Ricard took a minority stake the following August.
- Producer
- ALMAVE
- Based in
- Mexico
- Founded
- 2023
- Founder
- Lewis Hamilton and Iván Saldaña
- Process
- Never Alcoholized
- Sizes
- 700 mL
- Site
- almave.com



































