A decade ago, no party ever wrapped up before a round of Tequila shots, followed by morning vows of never touching the spirit again. Those shots simply shouted: ‘Give me something cheap, that I can gulp without tasting’. Neither was there any knowledge backing the drink, nor any motivation to look beyond cheap labels. Who spent on shots anyway, right? In fact, the riff of your mid-20s angst would lose soul if you discovered that those salt-rimmed, lemon wedged fiery liquids weren’t even pure Tequilas; definitely not the culturally-driven Mexican heritage drink for sure. But all that is finally changing now.
The pandemic helped us evolve from straight drinks to cocktails and exploring new spirits. Those heavily-aged, have-encyclopaedic-knowledge-before-approaching-me brown spirits were edged out by edgier, easier,
