Eliot Logan-Hines was born and raised in Austin, but found his love and livelihood in the mountains of Ecuador.
Eliot Logan-Hines was born and raised in Austin, but he found his love and livelihood in the mountains of Ecuador. High up in the Andes, he met his husband, Robin Grefa, and discovered an agave-based spirit that inspired him to found Andean Spirits. They also adopted a herd of alpacas.
Logan-Hines recommends “starting off with tasting our Chawar Blanco neat so you can appreciate the uniqueness of this agave and process. Our Reposado and Añejo are more for the whiskey lovers. And our ‘Reserva Cotopaxi’ is a very special Blanco from the slopes of the Cotopaxi volcano, the world’s largest active volcano.”
On his journey seeking information aimed at improving the relationship between humans and the earth, Eliot Logan-Hines met Robin Grefa, his now-husband. After beginning their lives together there in Ecuador, he began to learn and work with indigenous communities high in the Andes Mountains, who, said Logan-Hines, “maintain an amazing relationship with their arid landscape and one plant in particular, andean agave.
A true environmentalist, Logan-Hines added that the larger picture of Chawar includes alternative land use because agaves are part of the native agro-ecosystem, thriving in the cold, arid edges of deserts in the Andes.
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