Spirits Network’s Official National Tequila Day Cocktail Recipe Handbook
Celebrate National Tequila Day with these bartender-approved cocktail recipes.
Tequila
Pick a Great Tequila in 4 Easy Steps
By now you know (or should know) that Tequila graduated from the liquid fuel of your best college parties. In fact, the craft of Tequila-making arose from the Mexican valley that bears its name in the 1600s. That’s hundreds of years of art and science in every bottle. The finer points could take weeks to …
Jalisco, Volcanos and Don Julio González
To even begin to understand tequila, you have to learn something about the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (just say “Jalisco”), and what makes it so special. It’s kind of like Wakanda, if only in this way: it’s a small region in a big country and blessed with properties from something extraordinary in the …
What Sets “Ultra-Premium” Tequila Apart?
When companies describe their product as “ultra-premium” people get suspicious. It’s a different matter altogether when customers and critics use that language to describe a thing. In the world of fine Tequilas that classification is real, and a handful of distillers truly earn it. Tequila shed an unenlightened past as a shot chased with beer (gasp!), …