It
is said that the devil has made liquor, but he can´t say
of himself to have created the tequila. According to a Mexican
legend the gods are responsible for its creation: all hell was
let loose in heaven because the gods were fighting. The fight released
a flash which went into a blue agave and made its stalk boil. And:
a clear liquid came out: the tequila. A present of the gods, which
was reserved for the priests at the time of the Aztecs.
About
1.000 years ago the Aztecs made Pulque from the fermented agave
juice. This Pulque which is sold in Mexican Pulquerias still
today, is the predecessor of the tequila. Only in the 16th century
some
Spaniards brought the distillation process into the country.
People were very satisfied with a new agave brand called “Vino
Mezcal”, which they had finally created after some experiments. At
the beginning of the 19th century people began to cultivate the
agave around the Mexican city Tequila, and the “Vino
Mezcal” of this region took on the name of its cultivation
area – “Tequila”
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