Liquor and Tobacco
In Mexico liquor and tobacco are sold as much in corner stores and licorerias as in larger supermarkets such as the Bodega Aurrera and Comercial Mexicana, and in recent times in Zihuatanejo we've increasingly seen small specialty stores crop up offering just wines, or specializing in the many different types of Tequila and Mezcal available here, or selling locally made and/or Cuban cigars. Related articles published in our local Another Day in Paradise Magazine
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Tequila was first produced in the 16th century near the location of the city of Tequila which was not officially established until 1656. The Aztec people had previously made a fermented beverage from the agave plant which they called octli (later, and more popularly called pulque), long before the Spanish arrived in 1521. When the Spanish conquistadors ran out of their own brandy, they began to distill this agave drink to produce North America's first indigenous distilled spirit.[1] Some 80 years later, around 1600, Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, the Marquis of Altamira, began mass-producing tequila at the first factory in the territory of modern-day Jalisco. By 1608, the colonial governor of Nueva Galicia had begun to tax his products. The tequila that is popular today was first mass-produced in the early 1800s in Guadalajara, Mexico. Source: |
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