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Meet the blokes who have just mastered Australia's first home-distilled Blue Agave tequila

By Daniel Honan
Updated October 3 2019 - 3:22pm, first published October 1 2019 - 9:00am
First Australian tequila: James Becker and Mark McShaddock with a bottle of their Pinche product. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
First Australian tequila: James Becker and Mark McShaddock with a bottle of their Pinche product. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

Tequila can only be made in designated areas of Mexico from one single plant species, named Agave tequilana; more commonly called Blue Agave. So, what do you call the very first spirit made from Australian grown Blue Agave?

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