Tequila Sauza
Tequila Sauza is a distillery that produces the tequila of the same name as well as the Hornitos and Tres Generaciones brands . Its headquarters are in Guadalajara and its manufacturing facility, Hacienda La Persevarancia , is in the city of Tequila , both of which are located in the Mexican state of Jalisco . The Mexican supervisory authority CRT carries the Tequila Sauza under the names NOM 1102 and DOT 88.
history
With the acquisition, which was founded in 1805 distillery La Antigua Cruz , which he in La Persevarancia renamed, Cenobio Sauza put on 1 September 1873 foundation of the traditional family, which in the same year as the first tequila producer at all its products in the United States exported .
Don Cenobio ran the company for 33 years before handing over management to his son Eladio Sauza in 1906. Don Eladio modernized the distillery and refined his father's production techniques. In the 1920s he launched two new tequila brands that are still produced today: Sauza Blanco and Sauza Gold . He also began bottling tequila. Until now, the Mexican national drink had only been sold in barrels.
The management finally passed from Eladio Sauza to his first-born son Francisco Javier Sauza, so that Tequila Sauza was run and controlled by the same family for three generations.
Web links
- Official website (English and Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tequila's History: Part 2 of 3: 18th & 19th Centuries . Retrieved February 23, 2011.
- ↑ Anthony Dias Blue: The Complete Book of Spirits . HarperCollins. 2004. Retrieved February 23, 2011.