Cabo Wabo® Ultra-Premium Tequila Now Available Through Skyy Spirits. January 24, 2008
Rocker Sammy Hagar’s Tequila Line Gets New Majority Owner and New North American Distributor Network. Skyy Spirits, a Gruppo Campari company, is now the official marketer and distributor of the 100-percent blue agave Cabo Wabo Tequila line in the United States.
Tequila is Causing Headaches - Glut in 2008. December 26, 2007 - These days there is so much agave azul that farmers are selling it well below cost — if they're lucky enough to find a buyer at all. Special to the Express-News.
MuchoTE Tequila to Debut via the World Wide Web December 11, 2007.
MuchoTE Tequila will debut exclusively on www.Tequila.net, on January 29th 2008, in a first ever Tequila launch via the internet, William Elger, MuchoTE Tequila's Co-Founder announced today.
AsomBroso “Vintage” 11-year aged Añejo Tequila - December 17, 2007 - California Tequila, LLC, Maker and Importer of the AsomBroso Brand of ultra-premium tequilas, is proud to announce the release of the extremely limited quantity.
Dos Lunas Grand Reserve Sets New Standard for Luxury Tequila - 05 November 2007 (El Paso, TX) – Dos Lunas Tequila today announced the launch of Dos Lunas Grand Reserve, an Extra Añejo that breaks new ground in the luxury tequila category. Dos Lunas Grand Reserve is not only the world’s first commercially available tequila to be aged over 10 years (in sherry oak casks), it is also the only tequila to be bottled in hand-blown, individually numbered Baccarat decanters.
Tequila Valley boom and bust - CBC News Article by Connie Watson - October 22, 2007
Sixty-year-old Anacleto Romero holds out his calloused hands and points to a couple of small black spots embedded in his fingers. "Those are agave thorns under my skin," he says. "Most of them work their way out, but these two never have." Romero doesn't let the thorns slow him down. He's a jimador, an expert harvester of the spiky plant that is the essential ingredient in tequila.
New tequilas pour forth to meet rising popularity. Distillers are on a production binge.
By Laurence Iliff - The Dallas Morning News. October 12, 2007.
Cabo Wabo Tequila to Sponsor Rock Tour
Gruppo_Campari's Skyy Spirits-owned Tequila brand Cabo Wabo, founded by Van Halen guitarist Sammy Hagar, will sponsor the rock star's upcoming US tour. October 3, 2007
Satellite Entrepreneur Stumbles Into Tequila Investment. Hoernig is a 50 percent partner and chairman of the board for Casa Noble. n May, Hoernig became a 50 percent partner and chairman of the board for Mexican tequila manufacturer Casa Noble. Aug 24, 2007 - by Melissa Frederick, The Examiner.
When is a Tequila no Longer a Tequila? August 17, 2007.
William M. Dowd Reports And Comments On Distilled Beverages.
I've been posing that question to various people in the tequila field for the past year as more and more tequila makers introduce aged spirits that have been matured in anything from used bourbon barrels to cognac casks to wine barrels. The latest discussion was with Carlos Camarena, third-generation head of Tequila Tapatia which manufactures the El Tesoro line.
La Ley del Diamante … The Diamond Sterling
The first Tequila Bottle in the World valued at 1 Million Euros - July 20, 2007
Now, one year later, after arduous work on the design, we have fulfilled our pledge and have the honour of presenting you with “The Diamond Sterling…..” the very first and unique bottle world-wide with an estimated value of 1 million Euros.
El Tesoro 70th Aniversario Extra Añejo Tequila - July 02, 2007
On Saturday, July 7, 2007, we’ll reach an important milestone in the history of El Tesoro — 70 years of making tequila the authentic way at La Alteña Distillery. Aged for seven years in white oak American bourbon barrels,
this limited-edition "Extra Añejo" offers a rare tequila experience.
The First Rose-Colored Tequila - LaRosa from AsomBroso - June 18, 2007
LaRosa from AsomBroso is like no other reposado, or tequila to date. To become LaRosa Reposado the 100% Agave silver is rested in relatively new French Oak casks that were previously used to make a vintage Bordeaux wine.
Partida Elegante Extra Añejo Tequila Set to Debut at Aspen Food and Wine Classic
June 4, 2007, NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Partida Tequila Elegante, an extra añejo tequila aged more than 36 months in American oak, will debut at the Aspen Food and Wine Classic’s ‘Ultimate Agave: Mexico's Ultra Premium Tequilas’ seminar led by Steven Olson, one of America’s leading spirits experts.
Mexicans torch tequila fields for ethanol boom corn
29 May 2007 21:32:03 GMT - Source: Reuters By Frank Jack Daniel
MEXICO CITY, May 29 (Reuters) - Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices.
Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Tequila Acquired by Gruppo Campari/Skyy
Luxury Tequila Line to Go Global SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyy Spirits announced today that they will join professional rock and roller and tequila connoisseur Sammy Hagar in expanding his world class tequila line of Cabo Wabo.
Tequila - A Bit of History - Article from Los Cabos Magazine - Issue #8 -
By Ryan Thomas - Released: October 15, 2002
