National Tequila Day

Want to enjoy your National Tequila Day in style this year? Well, you are in the right place as we have the most amazing selection of luxury tequilas to choose from and have options that everyone can enjoy!

Below are some of the top picks to celebrate National Tequila Day this year:

Maestro Dobel Diamante

Maestro Dobel Diamante is a luxury tequila, artfully blended using reposado, anejo and extra anejo 100% agave tequilas. The blend is then subject to a proprietary filtering process that removes the colour while at the same time making the tequila exceptionally smooth and creamy in texture. 

Price: £53

Maestro Dobel Diamante – Black Diamond Margarita

Recipe

50ml diamante 
25ml lime juice 
10ml agave nectar 
Rock or martini glass 
Black salt rim

Say ¡hola! to Summer 2024 with an El Rayo Tequila 

This summer, mix up a vibrant summer highball with El Rayo Tequila, the modern Tequila crafted with 100% slow-grown blue agave. 

With summer 2024 set to be the summer of the Paloma cocktail, El Rayo recommends a Peckham Paloma, a true Mexican classic with a Peckham twist. In other words – what we do best. The drink tastes like golden hour on a rooftop in Mexico City – or South East London. We’re cool with either.

Alternatively, the classic T&T (Tequila and tonic) reimagines premium Tequila as more than just a shot. It’s a long, light and refreshing serve best enjoyed in the sunshine for an authentic taste of Mexico – the perfect way to begin long summer evenings. 

El Rayo’s two Tequilas – Plata (RRP £37.95/70cl) and Reposado (RRP £41.95/70cl) – were first created after best friends Tom Bishop and Jack Vereker were struck by inspiration in the form of a bottle of Añejo. This led them to quit their jobs and swap Peckham, London, for Guadalajara, Mexico.

There, they joined forces with Maestro Tequilero Oscar Garcia to craft a spirit that celebrates modern Mexico, and local Mexican artist Mario Ballesteros, the founder of Toro Pinto design studio, to create the brand’s award-winning design – including the bottles’ iconic label. After heading to the country’s highlands to find the blue agave plant, they distilled it into a single-ingredient, fresh-tasting Tequila made with tonic in mind. El Rayo – “the lightning” in Spanish – was born.

Try El Rayo Tequila in this cool summer serve that’s easy to make at home:

Peckham Paloma

Both mellow & exciting, tart & sweet, simple & lavish

40ml El Rayo Reposado •  30ml Pink grapefruit juice  • 10ml Lime juice  • 10ml Sugar syrup  • Grapefruit soda

Combine all the ingredients into a highball glass with ice, top with grapefruit soda and garnish with a fresh grapefruit slice and sprig of rosemary.

The T&T

A deliciously smooth and light experience. It’s clean. It’s natural. It’s fresh. Designed to start your night, not end it.

40ml El Rayo Plata • Indian tonic • Fresh grapefruit slice

Fill a highball with ice, then add 40ml El Rayo Tequila. Top with tonic and garnish with grapefruit.

El Rayo co-founder Tom Bishop said: “You’ll love the deliciously clean and fresh flavours of 100% natural tequila and to relish it in a long, slow serve like our Peckham Paloma or  T&T. It’s tequila made for tonic, grapefruit and good times, not lime, salt and regret. We can’t wait for you to discover why we’re on a mission to turn tequila into the first drink of the night, not the last.”

Over the summer, Sainsbury’s stores will be running a promotion on El Rayo Plata Tequila and London Essence Tonic between 17th July – 27th August. El Rayo will be sold at £28 (£6 off) over this time, and a London Essence multipack will be £3 (£1 off).

Celebrate National Tequila Day with these tipples – Casa Rayos & Pancho Datos

Casa Rayos Tequila

Born out of a lightning bolt moment and created by BrewDog Distilling Co., Casa Rayos is a blanco tequila made from 100% Blue Weber agave that’s crafted in the heartlands of Mexico, harvested by hand by one of Mexico’s most established distilling families and pays homage to a freak storm that sparked the discovery of the delicious spirit. 

A BrewDog Distilling Co. creation, who know a thing or two about creating delicious craft spirits, enlisted the expert knowledge of the Orendain family, the third oldest tequila distilling family in the heartlands of Jalisco, Mexico. Casa Rayos is the essence of agave alchemy, blended from over twelve choice tequilas from both copper pot and stainless steel distillations that showcase the true history and craftsmanship of the motherland.

Loaded with lime and orange citrus zest Casa Rayos is underpinned by spicy cracked black pepper, pink peppercorn and an earthy component typical of the region in which the agave has been grown. Delicately smooth, coating the palate, this is a tequila that can be sipped or can instantly transform a Margarita and Paloma into something really special.

The name is born from the ‘lucky strike’, a Mexican myth that dictates a lightning bolt once hit an agave plant and fermented the juices inside. As time passed by, tequila was born and techniques for making 100% agave spirits evolved. Maybe the world was trying to show
us some secret within. Maybe it was just pure luck. Maybe it was all just meant to be…

The sleek bottle design pays homage to the agave plant, with its defined leaves adorning the azure tinted bottle.

Casa Rayos tequila is priced at a RRP £42 and available to purchase from BrewDog Bars in the UK and from Brewdog.com

Pancho Datos Tequila

With a history and brand identity rooted in over 70 years of Mexican folklore, Tequila Pancho Datos is a premium 100% Blue Weber agave tequila crafted for life’s most memorable occasions.

In 1947 Ricardo Grijalva de Leon gave life to the character Pancho by writing great poems about his experiences in the Mexican Revolution. These stories became an iconic piece of Mexican literature and two generations later Luis Carlos Grijalva chose to honour his grandfather’s legacy through a proudly Mexican product. Tequila Pancho Datos is the result of this work, a tequila crafted to revive the stories in the book and ignite a passion in others to share their own stories with the world.

Tequila Pancho Datos is created using only Blue Weber agave that has been grown to maturity around the Jalisco town of El Arenal, right in the heart of Mexico’s tequila region. Grown in the lowland valleys of Jalisco, the altitude difference exposes the agaves to less of the Sun’s energy than those grown in the highlands. As a result, the tequila is not quite as sweet and benefits from a complex flavour profile that takes some of its character from the earth around it.

Tequila Pancho Datos offers two expressions of tequila: Plata and Reposado. Plata is unaged which gives an unadulterated agave taste, natural and beautifully smooth, Plata offers an exquisite balance of herbal, slightly sweet and peppery notes. Reposado is rested for 10 months in ex-bourbon White Oak casks giving the tequila a perfect blend of agave, vanilla, caramel, and wood flavours.

Crafted for the very best taste, Pancho Datos is an authentic family- run business that exists to ignite a passion in others to tell their stories.

Cocktail Suggestions

Margarita

50ml Tequila Pancho Datos Plata

25ml Cointreau

25ml lime juice

Splash agave syrup

Shake the ingredients over ice and double strain into a chilled martini glass.

Paloma

50ml of Tequila Pancho Datos Plata

10ml lime juice

10ml agave syrup

200ml pink grapefruit soda

Build in a highball glass filled with ice.