“Tequila,” wrote Charles H. Baker Jr. in his Around the World with Jigger, Beaker & Flask, “. . .is a spirit of definite merit. It is very potent, colorless also, and has a strange exotic flavor which—like Holland gin—is an acquired taste.” These words, written in 1937, were among the first Americans ever heard of Mexico’s most famous spirit. “There’s no such thing as a bad tequila experience,” as tequila educator Adam Stemmler is fond of saying, “there is only experience with bad tequila.” This often comes as some news. Take any three people off the street, and at least one of them has had a night of tequila so punishing, and endured a, Read more