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What Makes a Tequila Brand Craft? Five Things We Look For
Craft is on half the labels in the store and defined by none of them. Here are the five things we check before we use the word, and seven bottles that pass.
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Every bottle of tequila starts with the same plant. Blue agave, grown in Jalisco, held to the same rules. So why does one blanco taste like citrus and flowers, and the next one like black pepper an...
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