TEQUILA, Mexico — Deep below the public areas of the LaRojena distillery that produces the numerous expressions of Jose Cuervo tequila lies family history.
Tag: tequilas
Dowd on Drinks: Aged Tequilas Take Us To New Places
OK, let’s get right down to it. At what point does lengthy aging in used barrels turn tequila into something that, while perhaps still an excellent product, no longer is tequila?
Dowd on Drinks: The Great Tequila Flap Gets Hotter
I was spending a few relaxed hours with a group of people in an old cantina in dusty downtown Tequila, Mexico, discussing the explosion in the town’s namesake liquor among U.S. consumers and the merits of its various styles.
Dowd on Drinks: Beverage Giant Plays Tequila Card
The Orendain family has been an economic and political force in Mexico’s Tequila city and Jalisco state since 1926.
Dowd on Drinks: Tequila Diversifies
Mexico is in the midst of the biggest boom in its four-century history of mass producing tequila.
