Review: Topo Chico Spirited
Topo Chico Spirited was just released. It is currently available in 3 varieties and sold in individual flavor four packs. Each 12 ounce can is made with real ingredients including tequila, vodka and real fruit juice. Inspired by Topo Chico Cocktails and weighing in with 5.9% alcohol these cocktails include Ranch Water, Tequila & Lime, Paloma, Tequila & Grapefruit, and a Chilton cocktail, Vodka & Lemon. Read more 
Review: Onda Tequila Seltzer Tropical Collection
Onda Tequila Seltzer Tropical Collection is the third, four flavor 8 can mix pack of tequila seltzers produced by Onda. The others include their Paradise and Classic Collection. Onda was launched July 2020 by Noah Gray, Max Dworin, Kelli Adams, and Shay Mitchell. Onda translates to wave or good bye. June 2022 they received a $12.5 million growth investment from a group of heavyweights including Aria Growth Partners, 25Madison, Revolve, and Clayton Christopher the Founder of Sweet Leaf tea, and Co-Founder of Deep Eddy Vodka. Along the way the formula has also changed. The alcohol content has been reduced from 5% to 4.5%, and Onda has moved their canning line from Mexico to Pennsylvania. Onda is made from a blanco tequila base with carbonated water, natural flavors, and real juice. The previous flavors all included lime juice and flavor specific juice. These new flavors appear to follow the same formula. Read more
Review: High Noon Tequila Seltzer
High Noon Tequila Seltzer was just launched. It is made with Real Fruit Juice, Real Blanco Tequila, sparkling water, and natural flavors. The tequila is sourced from Destileria Leyros. This distillery crafts tequila for 28 brands including one of my favorites, Casa Dragones. High Noon Tequila Seltzer is available in a 4 flavor 8 can mix pack. The four featured flavors are Lime, Strawberry, Grapefruit, and Passion Fruit. After selling 500,000 cases of the vodka based High Noon in 2019, they sold 16.4 million cases in 2022, including an 85% increase last year alone. With hard seltzer brand leaders White Claw and Truly both launching vodka seltzers it will be hard for High Noon to continue growing at this pace. That is unless they introduce a Tequila Seltzer. Read more
Review: Buena Fe Organic Quencher
Patty Baer and Andrew Bushby were looking for a cleaner organic cocktail alternative, to what they refer to as the “hangover in a can” spiked seltzers on the market today. They spent 8 months searching, blending, and batching until they came up with Buena Fe Mango Pineapple and Buena Fe Watermelon Strawberry Organic Quencher. Buena Fe translates to “good faith”. Each 12 ounce slim can is made with a 100% organic blue weber agave blanco tequila base crafted at Tequila Galindo. This distillery also produces the El Luchador, and Galindo brands. The tequila base is blended with organic fruit juice, sparkling water, a touch of organic agave, and organic natural flavors. It is sold in individual flavor 4 packs and is currently available in Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Next up is Washington, California, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Read more
Review: Volley Spiked Seltzer Multi-Pack
Volley Spiked Seltzer was founded by industry experts and husband and wife Christopher Wirth and Camila Soriano. Volley is sold in individual flavor four packs and a four flavor 4 can Multi Pack. Each can is crafted with 100% blue agave tequila, organic juice and sparking water. Absent from each can of Volley is natural flavors. Natural flavors are the fourth most common ingredient in food and beverage labels behind only water, sugar, and salt. There are currently over 3000 ingredients that are considered natural flavors. If companies really wanted you to know what they are putting into their products they would be more specific, but natural flavors sound safer. Volley is made in Jalisco Mexico with tequila crafted at Casa Tequilera de Arandas from Highland region grown agave. Read more
Review: Sundays Tequila Seltzer Variety Pack
Sundays Tequila Seltzer is crafted from their award winning tequila made from 100% sustainably farmed Blue Weber agave sourced from both the Highland and Lowland agave fields. Mitchell Hayes founded Los Sundays in 2016 and released their first tequila September 2017. The tequila is distilled in a family owned female founded distillery. Each 12 ounce slim can of Sundays Tequila Seltzer is made with real tequila, real, juice, sparkling water, and natural flavors. Read more
Review: Faux Pas Grapefruit & Orange Tequila Soda
Faux Pas Grapefruit & Orange Tequila Soda is one of four canned cocktails developed by Spirit of Gallo in collaboration with Betches, a female targeted media and entertainment company with 8.4 million Instagram followers. This is not Spirit of Gallo’s first collaboration with a dynamic media partner as they teamed with Ryan Whitney of Barstool Sports on the very popular New Amsterdam Pink Whitney vodka. Each 8 Oz. slim can of Faux Pas weighs in with 8% alcohol and 150 calories. They are sold in individual flavor 4 packs. The other varieties of Faux Pas include Spicy Mango Margarita, Lemon & Mint Vodka Soda, and Bartlett Pear Vodka Mule. Faux Pas Grapefruit & Orange Tequila Soda is made with “Real Tequila” and natural flavors. Read more
Review: Chido
Chido was founded in 2020 by two best friends in search of a permanent vacation. Their love for tequila and good vibes was so strong they decided to bottle it up. It is currently sold in seven states including Wisconsin, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, and Colorado. Chido is also available via their www.drinkchido.com website. Chido is made from premium blanco tequila, sparkling water and natural flavors. Chido is sold in 4 can individual flavor packs and recently they introduced a 4 flavor 8 can variety pack. The four flavor variety pack includes 2 cans each of Pink Paloma, Strawberry Sunset, Spicy Watermelon, and Mango Mood. Their other flavors include Sea Salt Margarita and Pumpkin Spice Latte. Each 12 ounce thin can weighs in with 5% alcohol and 120 calories. Read more
Review: Onda Sparkling Tequila Classic Collection
Onda Sparkling Tequila was created by Noah Gray, Max Dworin, Kelli Adams, and Shay Mitchell. Four friends obsessed with tequila soda. The team shared a vision to elevate the ready to drink alcohol space with a new take on their favorite drink. The 100% agave blanco tequila base comes from Destiladora Del Valle de Tequila, AKA Casa Maestri. Celia and Michael Maestri moved from Houston in 2008 and established the distillery. This women owned distillery currently produces 146 different tequila brands. Carbonated water, natural flavors, lime juice, and flavor specific fruit juice concentrate complete the labels ingredient list. Onda is sold in individual flavor four packs, and four flavor eight packs. Today we are reviewing their Classic Collection. We previously reviewed the Onda Tequila Seltzer Paradise Collection. They have since changed the brand name to Onda Sparkling Tequila Paradise Collection. Read more
Review: Painted Donkey Tequila Cocktails
Painted Donkey Tequila Cocktails are available in four flavor varieties which are sold in individual flavor six packs at Total Wine and More stores. The current lineup includes Ranch Water, Spicy Ranch Water, Watermelon, and Pineapple. Each is made with tequila made from 100% agave, sparkling water and natural flavors and is produced and canned at Levecke Corporation in Mira Loma California. Total Wine and More also sells Painted Donkey tequila and presumably Painted Donkey Tequila Cocktails are made from a Painted Donkey Blanco tequila base. Read more