Tequila Ocho was born out of a collaboration between Tomas Estes, one of two Tequila Ambassadors, and Carlos Camarena, a third generation tequilero and now master distiller of Tequila Ocho. It is the first Tequila to designate both the year it was produced and the precise field from which the family grown agaves were sourced. Each batch comes from a different field or rancho contributing distinctive characteristics of that place, similar to the importance of a wine’s terroir.
What’s with the name, you ask? Ocho (eight in English) hold an important place within the brand for a multitude of reasons. A few of these are that it takes an average of eight years for agaves to ripen before harvest, eight kilograms of agave to make one litre of Ocho Tequila, and it took eight different samples for Estes and Camarena to find the perfect recipe.