THE FOUNDER
Vicente Cisneros began his career in spirits, bridging design, culture, and craft through every bottle he touched. Born in Tokyo, raised in Mexico City, and based in Los Angeles, his life has always existed at the intersection of worlds.
As co-founder and creative force behind Mezcal El Silencio, he helped move mezcal from a niche tradition to a cultural presence, launching projects such as Casa Silencio, Dahlia, and UMBRA that expanded its universe. Over the next two decades, Vicente cultivated relationships with Mexico’s master distillers, documenting their methods with lab-level precision and translating craft into language that endures.
In 2024, he founded Singular Archive to redefine how the world experiences rare spirits, guided by a belief in fewer things made with greater care and lasting meaning.
MISSION
To preserve and elevate agave as a collectible art form, honoring its origins, protecting its craft, and introducing it to new collectors through experiences that connect spirit, design, and legacy.
VISION
To preserve and elevate agave as a collectible art form, honoring its origins, protecting its craft, and introducing it to new collectors through experiences that connect spirit, design, and legacy.
AGAVE EXPRESSIONS
Singular Archive was built on one belief: agave deserves the same reverence as the world’s great wine and whisky.
Our members gain access to a portfolio of rare, unreleased agave blends sourced through family reserves and private producers across Jalisco, Oaxaca, and beyond. Each expression represents our relationships with generational distillers whose methods remain untouched by commercial demand.
These blends use nontraditional aging, blending, and distilling techniques that explore new dimensions of time, terroir, and texture. Each exists in impossibly small quantities, often a single or double cask, never to be made again.
THE FOUNDERS COLLECTION
The vessels are where craftsmanship and agave find permanence. Each piece is created by master artists and fabricators to achieve museum-grade quality, designed to exist as both functional and collectible art.
The initial release, The Founders Collection, includes one hundred pieces across ten designs, ten of each. Every vessel is recorded, numbered, and paired with digital certification of ownership, preserving its place within the Archive.
To hold a piece from the Gallery is to own a fragment of modern history. Each design embodies the Singular belief in rarity, precision, and timeless creation.
WHERE TO FIND US
Enter the archive and visit our private gallery and tasting room in Santa Monica, California. Schedule private tastings, explore new agave expressions, and secure placements within the Archive by acquiring a vessel from the collection.
We also appear at select auctions and cultural gatherings across the United States and Mexico, where new works are unveiled and placed with its new holder.