The inspiration behind the label of Las Melodías De La Luna
When we arrived in Oaxaca City, the sky was marked by something extraordinary, a Flower Moon lunar eclipse in the spring of 2022. It was our first night there. The city felt alive, and above it all, the moon held our attention in a quiet, unforgettable way.
Oaxaca has a way of speaking through color. We found ourselves drawn to the buildings painted in deep terracotta’s, faded pinks, vibrant blues, and sun-washed yellows. Every street felt alive, each color holding its own history and quiet confidence.
We spent hours walking those streets, photographing the buildings, drawn to the way the colors lived side by side. Without fully realizing it at the time, we were creating a palette. Something we would carry with us and return to when it came time to shape the visual identity of Las Melodías De La Luna.
And then, as we moved beyond the city, everything shifted. The landscape opened into rolling hills, soft and grounded, layered in earth and green. There was a calm to it, a steadiness that felt just as powerful as the color we had just experienced.
When it came time to design the label, we kept returning to those moments: walking the streets, looking out across the land, holding both the vibrancy and the stillness of Oaxaca. We didn’t want to choose between them. We wanted to hold both.
The white label felt like the right place to begin, open, quiet, and intentional. Around the bottle, we created a band of rolling hills, a horizon line inspired by the countryside we stood in. Within that landscape, we brought in the colors of the city, the ones we had photographed, the ones that stayed with us long after we left.
And above it all, the full moon.
A quiet nod to that first night in Oaxaca, where this story began.
Coming from music, the idea of melodies felt natural to us. The tasting notes of mezcal unfold in layers, not unlike music—each one revealing something new as you spend time with it.
For us, the label isn’t just design.
It’s memory.
It’s place.
It’s the meeting of color, landscape, and sound,
and the quiet understanding that something meaningful was taking shape.