The Sotol plant or Dasylirion comes from a compound of the Greek words for “dense” and “lily”. This evergreen plant grows in the deserts and is used in the northern states of Mexico to produce a distilled beverage known as Sotol. There are around twenty species of plants used to make Sotol with Wheeleri being the most ubiquitous. Wheeleri is also the local varietal near to Gerardo Ruelas’ distillery near the town of Aldama and produces a spirit with an earthy,vegetal character but with a rounded sweetness on the palate.