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Gintastic! That was my first thought when I took my first sip of G’vine gin, the first-ever [...]

I’d like to introduce you to an important and extremely versatile product from Partida Tequila, Partida agave nectar (at least in my humble opinion). I received a sample a short while ago along with their tequilas - but I purposely delayed writing about the nectar because I felt it deserved a seperate post.
Partida agave nectar is a blue agave based organic, natural fructose sweetener. It’s sweeter than sugar [...]

Unlike other tequilas which barely, but legally pass for tequila (51% agave based, the rest 49% sugarcane), Partida Tequila uses 100% pure blue agave - tequila does not get any more authentic and purer than this. Plus, if the accolades that Partida has been racking up recently is any indication, we’re not the only ones who think so.
The Partida estate, [...]

This brings us to our last base liquor in the series. To recap, we’ve looked at Gin, Rum, Brandy, Vodka & Whiskey (or whisky if you’re Scottish).
Now let’s discuss Tequila.
Tequila is distilled from the fermented juice of the Mezcal plant. The Mezcal plant must be grown within the limits of the state of Jalisco, Mexico [...]

We’ve covered Gin, Rum, Brandy & Vodka. Now let’s talk about Whiskey.
The name “whiskey” is derived from the phrase “water of life” and is made by distilling malted barley and other grains and aging the resulting alcohol in oak casks. The five major whiskey producers in the world are Scotland, the United States, Ireland, [...]

I didn’t quite know what to make of the puppies (industry slang for mini-bottles) when they arrived. They surrounded me - all three of them, with their squat, broad shoulders and studded collars. The smokey grey/purple bottle made it somewhat difficult to see what these pups were made of and only seemed to add to [...]