Sentence examples for tequila from inspiring English sources

The craft of the agave harvest, still done entirely by hand, has remained virtually unchanged since around 1600 when tequila was first invented by the Spanish conquistadors.

Meanwhile, he said, the board will not even temporarily relax the rule requiring any product called tequila to contain 51% agave.

Once harvested, these hearts are taken to the nearby Patrón distillery, where they will be cooked, crushed and fermented to become premium tequila.

Producers are paying around 7,000 pesos (£464) for a ton of the plant, stripped down to a core which yields a sugary liquid that is fermented and distilled twice before becoming tequila.

This disgruntled tequila veteran has his survival strategy worked out.

But the tequila industry will weather the storm, said Mr Gonzalez.

"As adolescents we used to empty our pockets and see what we could afford, and if we couldn't stretch to brandy or whisky we would get drunk on tequila.

Heady with success, most producers apparently failed to plan ahead... until they were shocked to discover that supplies were running out of the succulent blue agave plant that is used to make tequila.

"Nobody ever imagined that demand would reach these levels," said Ramon Gonzalez, the head of Mexico's tequila regulatory board.

The Don Julio tequila and the zest of the kaffir limes and leaves are cooked in the sous vide bag for 20 minutes at 52C.

This alcohol-stuffed shrine to his career also contains skull-shaped bottles of tequila, which he calls "Nick Davies" after the Guardian reporter who exposed the phone-hacking scandal.