AguaDios -The World’s Rarest Tequila

Wall Street Luxury is pleased to introduce our new client AguaDios. Known as the world’s rarest tequila, with just 1350 bottles produced and winner of numerous awards we believe AguaDios is must have for any serious tequila connoisseur.

1. World Tequila Awards 2024 Gold "Best Ensamble"

2. World Tequila Awards 2024 Gold "Best Design"

3. World Tequila Awards 2024 Overall "World's Best Design"

4. World Tequila Awards 2024 Overall "Best Limited Edition"

5. World Tequila Awards 2024 Gold "Best Secondary Outer Packaging"

6. World Tequila Awards 2024 Silver "Bottle Design"

Tequila surpassed whiskey in 2023 for the first time in history in terms of global sales and the collectors market for fine tequila is growing. Fine and rare one-time releases are taking hold at the center stage of the world spirits market with tequila rapidly becoming its rising star.

We recently sat down with our client Charley Pavlosky, founder of AguaDios to learn more about AguaDios and its fascinating story.

Hi Charley. What inspired you to bottle and market the “rarest tequila on earth”?

We really didn't know it would become that. My journey through Mexico began over thirty years ago and the end result, through a remarkable series of ongoing circumstances and newfound relationships, is that we have curated and released this Ensamble from the rarest Organic Blue Weber Agave, with the highest brix (sugar content) ever recorded, aged in the rarest most unobtainable hardwood on Earth, Japanese Mizunara oak. And so it became that, really along the way.

What makes AguaDios uniquely different?

The origin story, which began 220,000 years ago when an ancient volcano in Mexico suddenly became dormant, after raging for Millennia. In the ensuing 220 Millennia, the annual rains in the region bathed the foothills in alluvial soils of unparalleled quality. From these, originated the richest pure organic Blue Weber Agave ever known. AguaDios is a direct descendant of these soils- the first and only of its kind. And it only has three ingredients- this same alluvial, organic Blue Weber Agave, pure mountain spring water, and time in the barrels. Nothing else. It is fermented naturally. Zero additives, just the three purest ingredients on Earth.

AguaDios is aged in Japanese Mizunara Oak. Can you tell us a bit more about Mizunara Oak and how that adds to the uniqueness and quality of the tequila?

Mizunara is the rarest hardwood on Earth. The average oak takes 200 years to mature before it is harvested. So sacred is the process that the community will even bless the tree to be harvested and the Prefect will often have to sign off on its harvest.

The best Mizunara comes from Hokkaido, the northernmost island prefecture in Japan. The barrels in which Agauadios is aged come from Hokkaido, specially made for us by the cooperage there.

Under Japanese law, it is forbidden to use Mizunara outside of the country and special permission was granted to the makers of AguaDios through our close relationship to Bainbridge Distillers our partner in this enterprise.

So, with the 200 years for the Mizunara to mature, plus the length of time in the barrels overall from the various parts of the Ensembal, plus the finishing time in Mizunara this whole process represents around 250 years in the making.?

The AguaDios packaging recently won a prestigious design award. ?Can you share with us a bit more about what was involved in that process?

?Oddly enough, that almost didn't happen either! There are only three award competitions that matter: The World Drink Awards in the UK, which brings us the World Spirits Awards and World Tequila Awards- (the most prestigious awards anywhere) along with the World Spirits Competition in San Francisco and the Tasting Panel/New York Spirits Competition.

So, in New York and San Francisco, we won medals in '23 & '24, which was great. Then, in London this year, we were late for the entry because, we had just done the final package and I stayed up until the wee hours in California and called them to see if we could overnight our samples and be in the competition, the deadline of which was quickly passing. They kindly walked me through the process, then Fed Ex couldn't get our account set up in time for international shipping for some reason, so I asked Bainbridge to re-ship in a frantic call, and after much sweating and hand-wringing, that shipment got through on Bainbridge's account and we got in. Whew!!

And, we won Triple Gold for Best Ensemble, Best Limited Release, and Best Design. We were blown away by the design awards, because that means that we came out on top, over all the other tequila makers- in the entire world!

Absolutely crazy. I mean, we're first-timers here, and these other guys are massive companies and very good at what they do, and have unlimited resources and we're just tiny by comparison! Yet, we prevailed! Grateful, doesn't even begin to describe it. And luckily, what's?inside?that beautiful package holds up to the accolades now surrounding it.

The AguaDios story is one that emphasizes the importance of connection and synchronicity from start to finish. How important do you think this was in bringing AguaDios to fruition?

Without the relationships between Mexico, the US and Japan, this never would have happened. It is truly an astonishing example of synchronous connection, played out in a way that none of us could have ever seen coming.

Who knew, that in the course of one's life, the relationships we build could result in such extraordinary cohesion, to bring about something as special and once-in-a-lifetime as this? And thus, this became the core of the business- to access the inaccessible, to obtain the unobtainable- the finest, rarest of tequilas not known to the outside world and to bring them forth in special one-time examples.

What a gift! I am so humbled and honored by the fabric, the sheer matrix of this story, that, to somehow play a part in its origin and development, well I'm still not able to get my head wrapped around that, to be honest.

Wall Street Luxury and the team at AguaDios have curated several private tastings this year. We will be in Newport for Race Week August 9-11, The Newport Boat Show September 12-15, Ft. Lauderdale Yacht Show October 30-November 3 and select private locations in Palm Beach throughout the balance of the year. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to be invited to one of the AguaDios tastings, host a tasting, or would like more information about purchasing AguaDios.

?