For the richest guy in Margaritaville…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Forget about the kind of tequila you slam down on the bar or knock back at parties in throat-burning shots with salt and lemon. If you’re paying six figures, you might prefer to savor it in small sips.
An impossibly upmarket brand of tequila — 100 percent blue Agave lovingly aged for six years and sold in a limited edition platinum bottle with fancy artwork on the label — went on sale in Mexico on Thursday night for $225,000 a bottle.
“Tonight we are trying for the Guinness Book of Records with the most expensive bottle in the world,” Fernando Altamirano, chief executive of producer Tequila Ley .925, told a launch party for the liquor.
Tequila Ley .925 has produced 66 bottles of the “Pasion Azteca” tequila, half of them pure platinum bottles and half of them gold and platinum-decorated bottles that sell for the slightly less extravagant price of $150,000.
“Since we started out, we began with the idea of making the finest, most expensive bottle of tequila in the world,” Altamirano told Reuters.
For those on a smaller budget, there are 999 bottles of the same tequila in silver and gold bottles priced at $25,000.
Showing off one of each type, Altamirano said they had already been sold to a collector, but declined to give away the buyer’s identity.
Altamirano, whose company has won awards for its stylish bottles, said his next goal was to create a million-dollar tequila bottle made from diamond-encrusted platinum and auction it at Sotheby’s next year.
DAMN! I really don’t what to say. Hell I but stuff I can afford and these are sorta out of my price range. Would the tequila be worth it? I mean it doesn’t improve with age… and I’ve yet to taste any that tasted better then say Jose Ceurvo… but I don’t do shots of it. I generally water mine down with flavoring and ice… with maybe a little salt.
For those that feel the urge to waste that much, it’s bad they have already been all sold… at before the release party it sounds like. But hey you can still get yourself one of those $25,000 bottles just call fast…
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