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Soltado Tequila: Mexico, Packing Heat

I was sent a sample bottle of Soltado Tequila about four months ago and actually laughed out loud when I opened the box. The notion of a true añejo Tequila (this stuff spends twenty-eight months in oak barrels, folks!) infused with Serrano peppers and Mexican canela (cinnamon) led logically to two questions: 1) Why mess with a properly-aged añejo? and 2) Why, period? Soltado is a Mexican brand…

Soltado Tequila: Mexico, Packing Heat

A Short Note On Changes and Why They’re Good:  Over the past eight years, LOTS – and I mean that as in thousands – of people have asked me for More of The Pour Fool. I sorta ignored it. This blog is an Indulgence, for me, a antidote for decades of writing to order for newspapers and magazines, with a 200 – 300 word space budget and roving gangs of fleash-eating Editroids who tore into my…