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...doubled, making Mexico's national drink the fastest-growing liquor category in the world--another reason for the agave shortage. A major factor in the beverage's popularity has been the burgeoning demand for premium and superpremium tequilas, like La Altena distillery's El Tesoro, or La Gonzalena's Chinaco, made of 100% blue agave. These use nearly twice the fermented agave juice necessary to mix cheaper brands. "What is happening today is a product of what happened in 1991 and 1992," says Javier Arroyo Chavez, president of Mexico's Tequila Regulatory Commission. "No one then ever imagined that...
...necessary prerequisite for any Tex-Mex restaurant, Baja offers a wild assortment of margaritas, both standard and bastardized with the likes of Chambord and Grand Marnier. A timely cantina, the bar also offers two martini specials: Fuzzy Grape Chinaco Martini (Chinaco, Peach Schnapps, grape juice and sour mix) and Tarantula Martini (Tarantula Azul, Cointreau, and Chambord). The mere descriptions sent my insulin levels through the roof and the floor at once...
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