Tequila wars José Cuervo and the bloody struggle for the spirit of Mexico

A revelatory history of the vast tequila empire born from the fires of the Mexican Revolution. At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise tha...

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Main Author: Genoways, Ted (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The escape; March 1914
  • Part one: The valley. The best in the country
  • The will of a political faction
  • It is best for us to marry
  • Part two: The city. They have never even heard of agave
  • The important improvements of Mr. José Cuervo
  • We will take your town at any cost
  • Part three: The revolution. We will defend our home at all costs
  • With great determination and no surrender
  • The whim of what they wanted to be true
  • Part four: The war for Guadalajara. To make a movement into a crusade
  • A clear-eyed man
  • A memory in its wake
  • Epilogue: The tequila war.