Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico (Ted Genoways) Wild Game including José Pizarro

including José Pizarro

earning the adoration of generations of diners

for maple syrup or honey

West India swizzle

if not millennia

Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico (Ted Genoways) Wild Game including José PizarroPaperback edition At the dawn of the twentieth century, Jos Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojea, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise that would become Mexico's leading producer of tequila. Cuervo grew his kingdom of agave by acquiring thousands of acres of estates throughout the valley; he brought electricity and a railroad line to Tequila, so he could reach drinkers