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 Maximo a close second. When at the bar, I hang with Mark Albert from the awesome S.F.T. Tequila Bar, and recently we got to pour-sip-pour with some new friends, Grover and Scarlet from the sweet Tequila site TasteTequila.com. They know their Tequila like crazy, and are super cool cats to boot. They had just gotten married in near-by Tlaquepaque, and have the neatest Tequila themed-fueled wedding you could imagine, agave replacing all the basics trappings of tying the knot - these guys are real people, real drinkers, and are a true example of a Tequila Romance! cheers!
Anyhoo, Grover and Scarlet naturally love the
S.F.T. Tequila Bar, Mark and Sayulita, and stopped by to shoot some segments for their their website. I, being in the right place - right time - right bar… always, was lucky enough to be asked to hang out - and awesomeness, hilarity, and heavy drinking ensued. One conversation that kept popping up was Patron Tequila, and how we didn’t think very much of it. I personally can totally enjoy a big, fat, heavy glass of most any tequila, so you know I can enjoy Patron. The drunk in me, which is the real me at 2am, loves Patron. I love that it’s pricey, I love that people want to drink it, and I love that I don’t get to drink it often, so that = fun. The Tequila snob in me wants to rant and rave about the Americanization of Tequila, Paul Mitchell’s pony-tail, and, well, blah blah blah. Whatever. Who cares what I say? Patron is easy on the mouth, and people love that. It’s not that I do or don’t drink it because of that - I don’t drink it mostly because it costs $90us a bottle in my neck of the woods, and may cost even more in yours. Look…I am a drunk, not a rich drunk. There is a huge price distinction between those two levels of lifestyle. Whatever. I love em all, but if ya can choose, and I sometimes can, I don’t buy Patron. TasteTequila shot this awesome vid of Mark, owner of the S.F.T. going off on the topic here - check it out now!
Then… things got silly. Deep in the heart of dark-sunshine (?) that is the Mexican coast we call Sayulita, at the S.F.T. Tequila Bar, I pulled out my crappy 1984-meets-2007 bullshit camera, and shot this shaky-oldmanwhosdoneonetoomany-cam drink-thing. Never forget…the Journal ain’t pretty.
Enjoy?
December 16th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Hilarious! I loved the video of the taste test Cuervo vs Patron. We know that Grover and Scarlet know their tequilas so, both brands really must suck. Viva the good stuff!!!
December 16th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Arturo, thanks for checking in on the Journal! Grover and Scarlet are great, check out my site, I just posted an even funnier vid of us taste testing “side of the road” raicilla.
enjoy, gabbi