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Kah Tequila takes its place at the top table of brands driving premium tequila forward

As consumer preferences mature, tequila is finding a slower-paced route to your glass in the aged and premium tequila sector 

There’s no ignoring the popular death mask marketing that drives this premium Mexican brand. However, while it celebrates Mexico’s Day of the Dead at every turn, its name, Kah, translates to the word Life from its traditional Mayan language. 

This focus on the positive side of Mexico’s annual remembrance of ancestors, anchors the brand in Mexico’s long and storied culture. Celebration of the dead, in Mexican tradition, is not a time for mourning but one of remembrance and marking a life well-lived. 

The striking ceramic skull bottle design and a carefully positioned marketing plan have helped to drive the Kah tequila brand higher in the charts of premium tequila lists. The timing works too: the idea of sipping well-aged tequila at leisure has finally begun to replace the shots-and-party profile that dominated the sector for so long.

Today’s tequila consumers, with their broader experience and a wealth of choice, have turned their attention to a range of top-shelf pours, in a similar way to whisky and rum fans. A more educated palate has created a demand for a more complex drink, and it’s in this niche that Kah has thrived. 

Owned by the Amber Beverage Group, Kah is produced at the global drinks conglomerate’s distillery in Jalisco in Mexico, using 100% blue agave and built around a range of aged and unaged cask-matured tequila. 

Tequila comes in a variety of aged variants: traditionally, Blanco is unaged, Resposado is aged from two to 11 months and Añejo is aged for at least one year. All of the Kah range is double distilled, and the three variants below are each bottled at 40%. 

Kah Blanco

This double-distilled tequila is most people’s starting point with the range. Kah Blanco is a sweet and peppery tequila that is unaged and crystal clear in colour. Bottled at 40%, it has a silky texture that leaves layers of spice on the finish.  

Kah Reposado

Matured for 10 months in ex-bourbon American oak casks, Kah Reposado is pale gold in colour, having absorbed both flavour and colour depth from the oak wood of the cask. The wood delivers a vanilla layer to this smooth tequila, also, with a full body and an intense sense of the agave it was distilled from. 

Kah Añejo 

Kah Añejo is the eldest of the Kah range, having matured in oak for two years. This lengthy maturation has elevated the double-distilled blue agave tequila, driving strong notes of chocolate, coffee and tobacco into the spicy spirit.  

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Can you find a bottle of Port Ellen 20 Manager Reserve at a lower price?

A 30 per cent price drop makes this historic Islay release
a headline bottling all over again

When Diageo took ownership of the Port Ellen Distillery in the 1980s and decided to shut it down, they put this now infamous production house on a long road back to recovery. A massive rebuild has reversed this action since, with the distillery reopening in 2024 and driving the brand to new heights.

This 20-year-old Manager Reserve bottle was distilled in the last year of former production: 1982. A year later the plug was pulled, making this one of the rarest bottles from the Islay house.

Silver Seal
Port Ellen 20 was originally released by independent bottler Silver Seal, based out of Glasgow, and is one of only 360 bottles in its Missing series. At 20 years old it’s a hugely collectible vintage, released in 2003.

Now that Port Ellen is back at work, fans are still going to have to endure a long wait as its new whisky matures and the distillery begins to release headline bottles again.

Collector’s Item
Even after that point, simply having a bottle from the original stock will ensure the Manager’s Reserve increases its value long into the future. This is a guaranteed collector’s item.