There are four types of tequilas

There are four types of tequilas

December 20,2010

Neither is likely to replace champagne as the New Year’s Eve drink of choice, but the growing popularity of tequila and its cousin mescal is making a lot of people giddy.

The only spirits with increasing sales in the United States are tequila and fine mescal. They shot up 20 percent in 1994. Once unknown brands such as El Tesoro sold 300,000 cases last year, at a champagne-like $38 a bottle. And out there since October is La Reserva de la Familia de Jose Cuervo–at $75 a bottle!

Liquors once deemed the down-and-dirty delight of frat boys have been transformed into highbrow hooch, and high on the list of reasons is that a generation weaned on margaritas is now making yuppie bucks and searching for new ways to spend them. This has created intense competition and its attendant marketing mania.

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Last year, the distribution of Patron tequila was taken over by giant House of Seagram, and earlier this year El Tesoro’s distribution was taken over by Jim Beam Brands Co. The three major producers, Cuervo, Herradura and Sauza, have each attracted major investment dollars from British distillers.

The result is shelves filled with all sorts of new names, handblown glass bottles and stiff prices.

One suburban liquor store owner who carries 10 brands of tequila and two of mescal understandably asked for anonymity when he said, “Look, there’s probably only about 17 people who can tell the difference between this”–he pointed to a bottle of Pepe Lopez silver at $9.99–“and this”–he pointed to a bottle of Centinela anejo at $43.99–“and none of them live around here.

“So why are people buying? The price has a lot to do with it. People think that if they are paying more, they are getting more. These higher-priced brands have the same sort of appeal as BMWs. It’s a status deal.”

At such restaurants as Dish on Southport or Don Juan’s on Northwest Highway, each of which offers some 30 tequilas, one can easily find the new aficionados.

Sitting at the Don Juan bar one recent night was a 28-year-old law student named Roberta Simcek sipping a Jose Cuervo gold and saying, “The taste of tequila plain is something everybody should experience. It’s like a North American cognac.”

It is the booming sales of tequila that are getting people interested in mescal, which first got a small but serious boost in sales when actor Scott Glenn guzzled a bottle, complete with the worm that “graces” every bottle, in the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy.”

Source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-12-29/features/9512290010_1_jose-cuervo-tequila-el-tesoro

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