Posted on 07/21/2006 8:16:23 AM PDT by presidio9
Forget about the kind of tequila you slam down on the bar or knock back at parties in throat-burning shots with salt and lemon. If you're paying six figures, you might prefer to savour it in small sips.
An impossibly upmarket brand of tequila -- 100 percent blue Agave lovingly aged for six years and sold in a limited edition platinum bottle with fancy artwork on the label -- went on sale in Mexico on Thursday night for $225,000 (121,000 pounds) a bottle.
"Tonight we are trying for the Guinness Book of Records with the most expensive bottle in the world," Fernando Altamirano, chief executive of producer Tequila Ley .925, told a launch party for the liquor.
Tequila Ley .925 has produced 66 bottles of the "Pasion Azteca" tequila, half of them pure platinum bottles and half of them gold and platinum-decorated bottles that sell for the slightly less extravagant price of $150,000.
"Since we started out, we began with the idea of making the finest, most expensive bottle of tequila in the world," Altamirano told Reuters.
For those on a smaller budget, there are 999 bottles of the same tequila in silver and gold bottles priced at $25,000.
Showing off one of each type, Altamirano said they had already been sold to a collector, but declined to give away the buyer's identity.
Altamirano, whose company has won awards for its stylish bottles, said his next goal was to create a million-dollar tequila bottle made from diamond-encrusted platinum and auction it at Sotheby's next year.
Proving once again that fools and their money are soon parted...
Where tequila is involved, they deserve to lose it..
Semper Fi
Tequila = botox for the brain...
I can tell the difference between the cheap bar brand and the better stuff. There is also a difference in taste with chilled verus non-chilled. I'm a chilled Jose slammer myself with lemon and no salt. I first heard of sippin' tequila with Patron but I still prefer to just slam it back. To me that's how you should drink tequila.
Yep...Patron is fine stuff!
Finally, a tequila Tony Garza can afford ;o)
The worm is gold gilt.
With Tequila you smell it. The good stuff won't make you gag.
how much a shot?
Not entirely. With many distilled products more expense equal less debris and "roughage". Back in my drinking days I could only drink the distilled stuff if I didn't want an instant visit from Ralph and Earl after drinking a glass.
The FR nannys are going to slay you for the picture....
And well they should.
Showing PEPE LOPEZ bottles without the little sombreros is just wrong.
I have no earthly idea but it runs about $28 a bottle in Missouri so a shot can't be that bad. Frankly Caba Wabo is a little better (and owned by Sammy Hagar who I hear is at least semi conservative), but it's almost double the price.
"The FR nannys are going to slay you for the picture...."
shhhhhhhh....nobody tell em. :o)
Best you've tried?
They don't put worms in Tequilla. They do put them in Mescal.
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