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Old Vines at Mercato caps its Summer Spirits Dinner Series on Aug. 12 with a four course menu built around Tequila Ocho's single estate expressions.

The Clase Azul spinoff luxury brand rounds out its US expansion team and confirms Tierra Cobriza as its production partner in Jalisco.

IWSR data show Indian tequila volumes rose 34 percent in 2025 as US demand stalled, drawing new investment from Radico Khaitan and celebrity backed brands.

The Voltaggio brothers' tequila brand says two years of market-by-market expansion have landed it in 14 states and D.C., with a new Añejo already pre-sold to one retail chain.

The Italian spirits group is exiting the tequila brand it built up from Sammy Hagar's 1996 startup as part of a wider portfolio cleanout.

The single-estate brand has taken over 70 Windward Ave. as Casa de Ocho, hosting terroir-focused dinners through September led by co-founder Carlos Camarena.

A year-old Guinness title for 1,825 agave spirits at M Cantina in Dearborn is getting fresh pickup, and the count still beats New Jersey's Meximodo by hundreds of bottles.

Becle's tequila arm hires its first standalone India chief as reports point to an end of its longtime distributor arrangement with Monika Alcobev.

A Tasting Table roundup, syndicated by AOL, resurfaces the Gay Caballero, El Diablo and two rival Matadors, cocktails that predate tequila's modern boom.

A VinePair profile of Tequila Ocho revisits a family whose reach spans two multinational owners and a 2025 succession most drinkers never noticed.

Jonathan Stanyard, who won Cointreau's global Margarita Challenge in 2022, has named Don Fulano Blanco as his everyday tequila.

Don Julio and Casamigos led a 16 percent tequila decline as Diageo's full year sales fell, with baijiu weakness compounding the drag.

Mexico's tequila regulator shows genuine growth in Japan, China, South Korea and the Gulf, even as a wave of templated market reports inflate the story.

A $35,000 auction result has the trade asking whether rare agave is the next rare whisky. The answer is: partly.

A record surplus has flipped tequila's economics overnight. Here's what cheaper agave really means for what ends up in your glass, and who's quietly cutting corners.

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