Each year, 1,800 of each Essential Artists bottle are produced. As of 2013, 1800 is on its fifth annual Essential Artists series.
#1800 margarita bottle series#
Other series bottle designers include artists Gary Baseman, Yuko Shimizu and Tara McPherson.
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A second series was released in 2009 with one "celebrity artist" bottle created by Shepard Fairey's firm Studio Number One, plus 11 new designs picked from 15,000 online submissions from across the United States, including a $10,000 grand prize winner. In 2008, 1800 Tequila released a special limited-edition Essential Artist Series, with 12 unique bottle designs. It was described by The New York Times as "sweetly vegetal and very rich with an elegant aftertaste." Packaging Bottle ġ800s bottles have a trapezoidal shape and used to have a top designed to serve as a shot glass, by loosening the top slightly, turning the bottle upside down, and filling up the top. Wine Enthusiast placed the 1800 Coleccion, an extra añejo, in its "96–100" scoring category. In 2009, Bloomberg Businessweek named 1800 Select Silver one of the world's 20 best-tasting tequilas. Limited run, in bottle made of Belgian crystal with pewter trim in a suede and leather case, an extra añejo tequila aged over three years in charcoal French Oak barrels Ī one-off run of extra añejo tequila produced in 2000 for the new millennium Īt the 2008 San Francisco Wine and Spirits Competition, the Silver, Reposado and Añejo tequilas each won the silver medal, while the Milenio and Select Silver both received the bronze medal. Varieties Nameġ00% blue agave, aged in oak barrels for 15 days ġ00% blue agave, aged in American and French oak barrels for six months ġ00% blue agave, aged in French Oak barrels for three years In 2006, 1800 introduced The Ultimate Margarita, 19.9 proof and the only pre-mixed, ready-to-serve margarita mix made with 100% blue agave tequila (1800 Silver). That year, the Select Silver label was introduced, as the first and only 100 proof clear tequila.
Since 2008, it has been distributed in the US by Proximo Spirits. The Silver, Añejo and Reposado labels were introduced in 2004. Originally known as Cuervo 1800 Tequila, 1800 Tequila was launched in 1975 as a premium sipping tequila. 1800 is widely known as the year in which tequila was first successfully aged in wood. Shortly thereafter, the production of tequila was banned, until 1795, when King Carlos IV lifted the ban. The first officially licensed tequila manufacturer was Jose Antonio Cuervo of Jalisco, Mexico, in 1758, after he was given the rights by King Ferdinand VI of Spain to cultivate a portion of land.
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