Royal Vallet is Mexico's original bitters house, and its story starts with a failed empire. Henri Vallet emigrated from France during the brief reign of Maximilian I, the Austrian archduke Napoleon III installed as Emperor of Mexico in 1864 — and when Maximilian was overthrown and executed three years later, Vallet stayed. By the 1880s he had become Mexico City's preeminent distiller of liqueurs and elixirs, and his formulas survive: Fernet-Vallet and Amargo-Vallet are still made to his original recipes by Ingeniero Jorge "Chicho" Rodriguez, now under Las Joyas del Agave alongside Mina Real Mezcal and other sibling brands. Fernet-Vallet is Mexico's fernet — cinnamon, clove, quassia, gentian, and cardamom at 35% ABV, lighter than Fernet-Branca and found in virtually every serious mezcal bar in the country. Amargo-Vallet is the bright, 90-proof angostura-bark bitter, macerated with cherry and clove, built to hold its shape in cocktails. Granada-Vallet, the newest, is a pomegranate-driven red aperitivo colored with Oaxacan cochineal, widely considered the best Campari alternative on the shelf and closer to Campari's own original recipe than the modern one. Genuine Mexican bitters heritage, and the missing piece in any mezcal or tequila cocktail program.

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