Henri Vallet began crafting his classic bitters in the 1860s, when he emigrated to Mexico from France during the country's brief French colonisation period. When the French imperial emperor Napoleon the Third was eventually deposed, Henri Vallet remained in his adopted homeland and by the 1880s he had established local prominence as a skilled distiller of elixirs and liqueurs in the Fernet Branca replicated style, including these two bitters that are today still crafted according to his original recipe formulation. They have collected Medals all over the world.