Jose Cuervo Especial Silver is also cheap and easy-to-find, usually going for only $20 per bottle. Ina Garten also swears by cheap tequila for margaritas. ... As for gold tequila, ...

But in the early 1900s, Mexico’s first cartel was formed around a product that was relatively benign: tequila, the national spirit distilled from the pulped core of the blue agave plant.

Agave Shortage Turns Tequila Into Gold. By CHRIS KRAUL . Aug. 12, 2000 12 AM PT . ... It’s Topic A in this city, where 80% of the population of 35,000 lives off the tequila industry. Jose Cuervo ...

“If Jose Cuervo Gold is the only tequila you’ve ever had, you’re not drinking tequila,” says Ron Girotti, general manager of El Segundo in Vail. “You’ve definitely missed the boat because there’s so ...

At least six workers were killed after a fire erupted inside the Jose Cuervo tequila factory in Mexico, triggering a large explosion that sent one tank flying into the air, officials said.

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Five people were killed and at least two others injured in an explosion at a Jose Cuervo distillery Tuesday in Mexico, authorities said.. An explosion in a 50,000-gallon tank sent the massive ...