Word: seagram
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...importing them for sale," says Christopher Palmer, publisher of the online magazine Tequila Fancy. International customers were soon savoring formerly inaccessible brands like Centinela, Lapiz and Gran Centenario. A string of new multinational players in the market also helped. Over the past five years, giants like Brown-Forman and Seagram (Tequila Don Julio) and powerhouses Diageo (Cuervo's distributor) and Allied Domecq (Sauza's) have bought tequila distilleries in Mexico or gone into partnerships there in order to create new products. Tequila's cachet has also attracted such smaller spiritmakers as Pernod Ricard, which bought Mexico's boutique Tequila Viuda...
...Brasserie in the basement of the Seagram building--a modernist icon--they had to contend with a real client. "We were interested in the social aspects of dining--the restaurant culture," says Diller. The restaurateur was more interested in how many tables would fit. But they seemed to find a meeting place. The restaurant--with videos above the bar broadcasting the entrance of patrons, and liquor bottles suspended behind frosted glass like fruit in Jell-O--is generating buzz. So while the duo, who have done scant building before, aren't seeking more interiors work, it's clear they will...