Help & FAQ
Straight answers. Real sources.
Where to find Yéyo, how it's made in Arandas, the barrels behind each release — and a few things you'll only meet at the distillery.
Buying & finding Yéyo
Where can I buy Yéyo Tequila?
Use our Find Us page to search for liquor stores, bars and restaurants carrying Yéyo near you.
You can search by city or ZIP code, or shop Yéyo online for delivery where available.
Is Yéyo available in my state?
Yéyo's availability varies by market. Use our Find Us page to search your city or ZIP code for nearby stores, bars and restaurants.
Don't see Yéyo near you? Submit a Request Yéyo and tell us where you'd like to find us.
How can I get Yéyo into my local liquor store?
It starts with a request. Ask your favorite liquor store for Yéyo Tequila. In many cases, the retailer can work with its distributor or purchasing team to determine whether Yéyo is available in the market.
You can also submit the store through Request Yéyo so the Yéyo team knows exactly where you would like to find us.
How can I get Yéyo into my favorite bar or restaurant?
Ask for Yéyo. Many new placements begin because a customer asks a bartender, beverage director, bar or restaurant to bring Yéyo in.
You can also submit the account through Request Yéyo with the account name, city, state and ZIP code.
I own a liquor store, bar or restaurant. How can I carry Yéyo?
We'd love to hear from you. Licensed retailers, bars and restaurants interested in carrying Yéyo should use the Contact Yéyo form and select the matching business inquiry, with your business name, contact details, city, state and type of account.
Can Yéyo come to my market?
Yéyo continues to grow market by market, and requests help us understand where people want to find us.
Consumers should submit a Request Yéyo for their favorite liquor store, bar or restaurant. Retailers, hospitality accounts and distributors should contact our team directly.
About Yéyo
Where is Yéyo Tequila made?
Yéyo Tequila is made in Arandas, Jalisco, Mexico, in Los Altos — the Highlands of Jalisco — at Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414.
What NOM is Yéyo Tequila?
Yéyo Tequila is produced at NOM 1414, Destilería El Ranchito, in Arandas, Jalisco, Mexico. A tequila's NOM number identifies the authorized producer responsible for making it.
Who makes Yéyo Tequila?
Yéyo is made at Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414, with Master Distiller Sergio Cruz and the Vivanco family. Yéyo was founded by Jon Bullinger.
Who is Sergio Cruz?
Sergio Cruz is the Master Distiller behind Yéyo Tequila. He has spent more than 20 years making tequila, and his tequila-making career has been spent working with the Vivanco family at Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414, in Arandas.
Sergio and Yéyo founder Jon Bullinger have built a friendship and working relationship spanning approximately 15 years.
Is Yéyo a Highlands tequila?
Yes. Yéyo is produced in Arandas, Jalisco, part of Los Altos de Jalisco, commonly known as the Highlands, and uses 100% Blue Weber agave grown in the Highlands of Jalisco.
How Yéyo is made
What kind of agave does Yéyo use?
Yéyo is made with 100% Blue Weber agave from the Highlands of Jalisco, typically harvested at approximately 5–6 years of age.
How is Yéyo Tequila made?
Yéyo starts with mature Blue Weber agave from the Highlands of Jalisco. The agave is slow-cooked in traditional brick ovens for 53+ hours and milled using a roller mill.
Fermentation runs for approximately 190 hours using Champagne yeast and deep-well water. Yéyo is then double distilled in copper pot stills at Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414.
How long does Yéyo ferment?
Yéyo's fermentation runs for approximately 190 hours, using Champagne yeast and deep-well water at Destilería El Ranchito in Arandas.
Does Yéyo really play music during fermentation?
Yes. Classical music plays during fermentation at NOM 1414 — the Mozart Method, a human ritual that is part of Yéyo. The yeast has declined to comment.
How is Yéyo's agave cooked?
Yéyo's Blue Weber agave is slow-cooked in traditional brick ovens for 53+ hours before milling and fermentation.
How is Yéyo distilled?
Yéyo is double distilled in copper pot stills at Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414. And the two stills have names — The Destroyer and The Perfector.
Inside the Yéyo distillery
Yéyo distillery journal
Things you'll only find at Yéyo.
Some parts of Yéyo aren't on a bottle.
Real photographs taken at Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414, Arandas. Tap any photo for the full story.
Why does Yéyo call its copper stills The Destroyer and The Perfector?
They're Yéyo's nicknames for the two copper pot stills used during distillation.
The larger first still is The Destroyer — it handles much of the heavy work during the first distillation. The smaller second still is The Perfector — the second distillation is more refined, which led to the nickname.
Who is Dan the Duck?
Dan the Duck is one of the more unusual members of the Yéyo distillery family: a rubber hot-tub duck thermometer used to check the temperature in the radiator tank during production. He takes the job very seriously.
Why are there lime trees and flowers inside the Yéyo distillery?
At Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414, 10 former Yéyo barrels have been repurposed as planters alongside the fermentation tanks and roller mills. Today they hold several lime trees and flowers.
The plants bring citrus aromas, flowers and insects into the environment surrounding Yéyo's fermentation tanks, and Yéyo considers this living environment part of the character surrounding fermentation. It's also a very Yéyo way to give old barrels a second life.
Why is Yéyo blessed at the distillery?
Several times each year, a local Catholic priest visits Destilería El Ranchito to bless the distillery staff and Yéyo bottling. It has become a continuing Yéyo tradition at NOM 1414.
According to the distillery's history, Yéyo was the first brand at NOM 1414 to introduce this blessing, and Yéyo continues it today.
What is the Yéyo distillery book?
At the distillery in Arandas, Yéyo keeps a leather-bound book with a distinctive tobacco-and-vanilla aroma. More than 100 visitors and friends of Yéyo have written in its pages, sharing their experiences with Yéyo and what tequila means to them — a living record of the people who have shared a glass of Yéyo there.
What is Yéyo's Infinity Barrel?
The Infinity Barrel is a small 10-liter barrel at the distillery that is never completely drained. Tequila is enjoyed from it and Yéyo is continually added back, so what's inside keeps evolving over time.
It has a glass head and a pull lever on the front for pouring directly from the barrel. It is a distillery experience, not a Yéyo product, and is not for sale.
What is the La Biblioteca barrel?
La Biblioteca — The Library — is a 53-gallon barrel with both a glass head and a glass bottom, built from staves taken from different barrels, bringing pieces of Yéyo's barrel history together in one vessel.
It was not created as a commercial release. It exists at the distillery to be opened, shared and enjoyed with friends, and it is not for sale.
Yéyo expressions
What is the difference between Yéyo Blanco 80 and Blanco High Proof 96?
Yéyo Tequila Blanco is 80 proof (40% ABV) and rests 70 days before bottling. Blanco 96 High Proof is 96 proof (48% ABV), also rests 70 days, and incorporates approximately 5% agave fibers during fermentation.
What makes Yéyo Reposado different?
Yéyo Tequila Reposado rests approximately eight months in ex-rum casks from Foursquare Distillery in Barbados. 80 proof (40% ABV).
What is Yéyo ROSA?
Yéyo Tequila Reposado Rosa 86 is a Reposado with equal influence from Syrah casks from France, Sherry casks from Spain and Port casks from Portugal. 86 proof (43% ABV).
What are Yéyo SOL and LUNA?
The current releases are Joven SOL Vol. II and Joven LUNA Vol. II. Both are 86 proof (43% ABV) blends of 75% Reposado and 25% Blanco, aged eleven months.
SOL Vol. II rests in ex-spiced apple cider casks; LUNA Vol. II rests in ex-peach wine casks.
What is Yéyo CAPRI?
CAPRI is a limited-release Yéyo Reposado aged six months in barrels that previously held White Port. 86 proof (43% ABV).
Is Yéyo Tequila kosher certified?
Yes. Yéyo Blanco, Blanco High Proof, Reposado and Joven SOL are certified kosher by Jay Kosher.
Wine-rested expressions can require additional certification considerations because the wine and grape sources must also meet traceability and certification requirements.
Barrels & limited releases
Why does Yéyo use so many different barrels?
Because making the same thing over and over sounds boring. Yéyo experiments with casks that once held other spirits and wines, and each barrel leaves its own mark on the tequila.
What kinds of barrels has Yéyo used?
Examples include rum, Cognac, White Port, Sauternes, Sherry, Tokaji Aszú, Willett whiskey, and wine casks such as Syrah and peach wine.
Does Yéyo make single-barrel tequila?
Yes. Yéyo has bottled individual barrels as their own releases, including the Heritage Cask Collection: five expressions across 14 barrels, each bottled on its own. Not every single-barrel release remains available.
Are Yéyo limited releases available forever?
No. Yéyo's limited releases are produced in restricted quantities and availability varies. Sold-out releases may remain on yeyotequila.com as part of Yéyo's archive and Barrel Library.
Where can I learn about past Yéyo releases?
Visit the Barrel Library and Limited Editions. Yéyo preserves past releases there as part of the brand's barrel history.
Orders & shipping
Where does Yéyo ship?
Yéyo Tequila currently ships to 46 U.S. states. We currently do not ship to Alaska, Hawaii, Utah or Ohio. Shipping availability is also confirmed at checkout.
Do I need to be 21+ to purchase alcohol?
Yes. You must be of legal drinking age — 21 or older in the US — to purchase Yéyo Tequila.
Does someone need to sign for delivery?
Yes, orders may require a signature on delivery. If an order is returned to the sender because no one signed for it or the address was incorrect, you can receive a refund for the item minus any applicable shipping costs and a $20 restocking fee.
What happens if my order arrives damaged?
Contact the Yéyo team and a damaged item can be replaced.
Can I return tequila or Yéyo merchandise?
Unless an item is damaged, all sales are final — for both tequila and merchandise.
I need help with an order. Who do I contact?
Use the Contact Yéyo form and choose Order / Shipping Help.
Visiting Yéyo
Can I visit where Yéyo Tequila is made?
Yes, by appointment. Visits to Destilería El Ranchito, NOM 1414, in Arandas are subject to confirmation — submitting the request form is a request, not a booking.
How do I book a Yéyo distillery tour?
Send a visit request through the Distillery Tour page, which lists current visiting hours.
Cocktails & serving
Can I drink Yéyo neat?
Yes. How you enjoy Yéyo is personal — neat, on the rocks or in a cocktail.
Can I use Yéyo in cocktails?
Yes. The Yéyo Cantina is full of cocktails built around each expression.
What cocktails can I make with Yéyo?
From margaritas and ranch water to a Rosa Old Fashioned, Yéyo's recipes are matched to each expression in the Cantina.
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