Archive for the ‘Tastings’ Category
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Sayulita, Tastings, events, tequila, the Sayulita Tequila Journal
Your friendly neighborhood self-destructive author, about to bust open his new bottle of Don Fernando T.K.O. - 40th Birthday, October 09
Don Fernando’s TKO Plata 100 x 100 is a unique tequila, and I don’t just mean that the bottle is a bright red glass boxing glove. Honestly, at first glance, this bottle comes across as [...]
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Tastings, mezcal, raicilla, tequila, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
Another rockin’ time at the S.F.T. Tequila bar here in Sayulita. More fun with Grover and Scarlet from TasteTequila.com, at the end of the day, with the famous skull and crossbones coke bottle booze (see my posting where we previously reviewed the Raicilla from this very same bottle HERE). In this bottle is Raicilla, a [...]
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Mexico, Tastings, tequila
One thing I love about my life (being an Alcoholic), is that I get to meet lots of other great people with similar interests (Alcoholics), and talk (drink) with them. I have lots of great drinking pals in my town of Sayulita Mexico, main one being my wife and prime-enabler Andrea, with my sober home-boy [...]
Tequila and Bourbon - 2 great tastes that taste great forever
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Bourbon, Drinking partners, Love, My Friends, Tastings, USA, Wisdom, tequila
“When I die, may the devils dancing on my grave have hearts full of fancy, songs full of madness, and glasses full of Bourbon and Tequila, spilling down onto the dirt above me.” - Me, today Sept 10 2009
My Father-in-law, the honorable Billy Stoops (Blues madman and soul-twangin’ leader of Junkyard Jane and Billy Roy [...]
Mixtos, Bum Wines, Cheap booze and more drunk for your buck
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Ed Schwartz, Mark Alberto Holt, My life, Tastings, Wasted..., Youth, bum wine, mixtos, tequila, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
Above: the Author, full of Cuervo Especial during his first tattoo, circa 1986
For most my drinking life, a life that has been long and prosperous, I have focused my laser-beam dedication to alcohol around affordable (read: cheap) and easily attainable (corner store) booze. From the very start, I ran with the lowest of the [...]
My 5inco de Mayo
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Mexican Holiday, My life, Tastings
As 5inco de Mayo approached, we were deep in Swine Flu ‘09, with the whole of our little town Sayulita, and most of the rest of the country in the throes of closings, warnings and just plain media chaos. In our area (as well as many others) you found closed schools, malls, theaters, and yes… [...]
Mezcal, Raicilla, Mexican Moonshine, and the (in)famous Worm
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Mexico, My life, Tastings, mezcal, moonshine, raicilla, tequila
“It’s Mezcal with me…Tequila, no, that is helpful and delightful, just like beer. Good for you. But If I ever start to drink Mezcal again, I’m afraid, yes, that would be the end…” - Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Moonshine. Everclear. Bathtub Gin. Mezcal. Raicilla. Since the start of times, humans have been catching a good [...]
Ed Schwartz - a nose for the good stuff
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Ed Schwartz, Mexico, My life, Tastings, press, tequila
My good friend Ed Schwartz is the kind of guy you want to sit and have a drink with. Luckily our friendship allows this and more. He is a long time Wine industry rep and enthusiast, and has now turned his attention to what Mexican’s call “vino”, our dear Tequila. Ed and his wife [...]
Sweet Sweet Tequila, the blood of Christ or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bottle(s)
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Ed Schwartz, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Tastings, bartenders, events, tequila
I have had a long and fruitful love affair with alcohol. I often want to write about it , but hesitate, full of worry that my loved ones will see my affection for this bottled elixir in a wrong light. I don’t worry much, as a man of 39 years, well schooled in hard knocks [...]
