About Destilerías Acha

In 1831, Mr. Paul Pomés founded a factory of spirits, compounds, liqueurs and syrups in a small workshop in old pre-industrial Bilbao. Without knowing it and together with Mr. Manuel Acha, they were building the foundations of what a few years later would be called Manuel ACHA Distilleries, a historic company, a reference in the liquor market. Since then, our family has dedicated itself with passion to the distillation of spirits and liqueurs, zealously conserving their recipes and production methods. After five family generations and almost two centuries of history, we know that there is no inheritance more valuable than the passage of time. The knowledge and experience acquired and transmitted generation after generation are our hallmark of guarantee. In continuous evolution with the trends and preferences of the consumer market, we have managed to develop and position more than 200 references for spirits around the world, maintaining the most demanding quality parameter in our traditional processes unwavering. With incalculable historical value, Destilerías MANUEL ACHA S.A. is the oldest active company in the Basque Country, the oldest family-owned company in Spain and one of the three oldest family businesses in Europe. Since 1884, we have been located in the center of Amurrio, a town in the historic territory of Álava located in the heart of the green and beautiful Ayala Valley, of high landscape and cultural interestRead their story