You know those nights when you’re sitting around, sipping fine tequila, and you start fantasizing about making your own special brand here in the United States? You start to wonder: Could I grow the agave here? Could I wait eight years for the plants to mature? How the hell would I ground and steam those massive piñas? Ninety-nine percent of us would discard the idea as a foolish fantasy, but that’s not what Jorg Rupf and Lance Winters at St. George Spirits did; these wily entrepreneurs actually made their own line of tequilas (except they can’t call them tequila.)
Archive: April 7, 2009