USDA Says Drink Mo' Tequila!
By: Tiff Reldon 04/07/09Here at MetroWize, we have no problem encouraging benign states of alcoholic intoxication. It's not our fault if you go overboard and wake up in Mexico straddling a palm tree wearing nothing but a sombrero. So as not to feel totally guilty, next time mix boozing with a quasi Earth-friendly lifestyle. At the 2009 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Casa Noble received its official endorsement from the USDA as certified organic.
Casa Noble grows its own blue agave plants on a 1,500-acre estate, distillery and barrel house. Around since 1776 in Jalisco, Mexico, this tequila house prides itself on cultivating crops without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides, using organic cleansers to disinfect their wells and transportation vehicles, and go the extra mile by hand-blowing sculpted glass decanters for everyone. The organic magic comes from the rich volcanic Mexican soil, the use of wild natural yeast for fermentation, and singing love songs to their plants. They even recycle unused portions of the agave and reuse it as fertilizer.
A bottle will cost between $35 and $60 for 750 ml of Crystal, Reposado and Anejo. As of this year, you can get a bottle of single-barrel Reposado ($55) or Anejo ($130), and savor the luxury of having your very own numbered and signed one-of-a-kind specially brewed batch of the good stuff.

Casa Noble is the second tequila house to receive the USDA's mark of honor. First came 4Copas. These guys join the good fight for green-centric booze fought by Tru Vodka and Benromach Whiskey. Tru plants a tree for every bottle of vodka they produce. Their lightweight bottles are equipped with synthetic corks and corn-fiber labels scrawled with soy-based ink, as well as dual-use packaging, which gives them a carbon negative rating of -760. That's nuts.
What's bananas (and pineapple) is Benromach's single-malt whiskey when you drink it straight. When blended with water, on the other hand, certain toffee and malt flavors rise to action. This organic single-malt is the first to be fully certified by The Soil Association. Their whiskey may be distilled in virgin oak wood, but...well, you're not a virgin, are you? And that's not a bottle in your pocket, either.
Watch out Captain America, we're coming at you wasted.












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