Taste Tequila

A recovery for the tequila industry in 2010; a new website for Herradura; mixing your tequila with cream; and what the hell are “Tequila Balls?” These things and more made it on our “This Week in Tequila” list. If you have some tequila news you’d like to share with us, please let us know. Here’s [...]

More people are drinking at home, people who don’t know anything about tequila are writing stories about it, and there’s good news for tequila fans in Los Angeles. These things and more make it on our “This Week in Tequila” list. If you have some tequila news you’d like to share with us, please let [...]

Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, and we know they’ll have good tequila in the stadium. Also, some news reports are showing that we may be drinking more, but going for cheaper brands. These things and more make our “This Week in Tequila” list. If you have some tequila news you’d like to share with [...]

Calling all tequila addicts! We’re introducing a new weekly feature that will give you the lowdown on all the latest tequila news, posted each Friday. If you have tequila-related news of your own, please let us know. With that, let’s get started! TequilaAficionado.com set to relaunch Feb. 1st – bigger and better. Tequila reporter Mike [...]

Although we’re certainly not hardcore Twitter junkies, we do use it from time to time. One really cool new feature that Twitter just released is called Twitter Lists, and it allows users to be “curators” of a list of other Twitter accounts. So we just assembled at list of tequila brands that are active (or [...]

I just spotted an interesting story on just-drinks.com. Most interestingly is what they’re saying about our beloved beverage: Tequila posted the fifth-largest volume increase, and Tequila’s rising prominence on the world stage, the report posits, is a further reason why speciality spirits should be taken seriously by international players. “Tequila’s transition from being principally a [...]

Our trip to Jalisco last month included some time visiting with Rafael, a real life jimador who works for the Tres Mujeres distillery. We were able to watch as he made a very difficult process look extremely easy. He was able to get an entire plant out of the ground in less than 5 minutes. [...]