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Tusk’ave · Special Projects
Special Projects is the side of Tusk’ave that works with brands, companies and private clients. Casks laid down in your name, private labels, new brands, single-barrel editions made from scratch and blanco produced to your specification. All of it made at our partner distillery in Los Altos de Jalisco, NOM 1634.
Private projects under written agreements. Not a public offering and not an investment product.
Two ways in
Special Projects
For brands, companies, founders and private clients who want tequila made, aged or bottled for them: private labels, new brands, blanco supply, and casks held at origin for a planned release.
See the five projects
The single-barrel reserve
For venues, retailers and collectors who want a cask that is already aged. That is the heart of the main Tusk’ave site: every cask in the reserve, with its oak, toast, age and proof.
Browse the reserveWhat we build
Every project is agreed in writing, made at NOM 1634 and bottled in Jalisco. Pick the one closest to what you have in mind. Most conversations start somewhere between two of them.
01 · Casks owned at origin
Aged tequila is a physical, regulated product: agave that took years to grow, distilled, and then changed by every month it spends in oak. The aged tequila a brand will pour in three years has to go into barrels today.
Some clients choose to own that tequila from the start, so the aged liquid their future brand, private label or company release needs is there, at the age they want. It is a purchase of tequila for a planned use, held and looked after at origin until it is bottled.
Talk to us about a cask
The life of a cask
Tequila 100% de agave has to be bottled at the producer’s authorised plant (NOM-006-SCFI-2012). So every path ends in bottles filled in Jalisco, never in bulk tequila shipped elsewhere.
The market
Tequila can only be made in Mexico, and 84% of the tequila Mexico exported in 2024 went to the United States. Spin the globe, or pick a market, to see where it goes.
Sources: Consejo Regulador del Tequila (2024 exports, appellation of origin) and the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (2024 US revenue). Market descriptions are general and for context only.
How it runs
Every Special Project runs on the same four stages. What changes is what happens at the end.
Blue Weber agave from Los Altos de Jalisco, cooked, fermented and distilled at our partner distillery, NOM 1634.
Casks aged under the rules of the Consejo Regulador del Tequila, each one numbered and recorded.
Time in oak moves the tequila through the official categories and changes what it can become.
Bottled at origin as your brand, a private label or a single-barrel edition, then shipped through licensed importers.
The aging journey
Tap a stage. Each official category is a threshold the tequila crosses in oak, and each one suits a different kind of project.
0 to 2 months
Bottled fresh, or rested for less than two months.
Gauges are illustrative. The angels’ share, the tequila that evaporates through the oak, varies with the cask and the warehouse.
2 to 12 months
At least two months in oak.
Gauges are illustrative. The angels’ share, the tequila that evaporates through the oak, varies with the cask and the warehouse.
1 to 3 years
At least one year in oak casks of 600 litres or less.
Gauges are illustrative. The angels’ share, the tequila that evaporates through the oak, varies with the cask and the warehouse.
3 years and more
At least three years in oak casks of 600 litres or less.
Gauges are illustrative. The angels’ share, the tequila that evaporates through the oak, varies with the cask and the warehouse.
Longest aged
A trade name, not an official category: Extra Añejo aged well beyond three years.
Gauges are illustrative. The angels’ share, the tequila that evaporates through the oak, varies with the cask and the warehouse.
Illustrative model
Move the slider to see how a single 200 litre cask changes over ten years: which category it reaches, how much tequila the angels take, roughly how many bottles it could fill, and a hypothetical reference value for the tequila at that age.
Cask of 200 litres
Extra Añejo
Bottles are counted at cask strength, before any proofing. No costs are included.
Hypothetical liquid value of one cask Illustrative
02 · Private label
For companies, hotels, clubs and groups that want a tequila of their own: for client gifts, a milestone year, a members’ bar or a house pour. You choose the tequila from what we already have, we build the label around your mark, and the bottles are filled, sealed and numbered in Jalisco.
Discuss a project
03 · Brand development
For founders, athletes, artists and companies building a tequila brand of their own. We supply the tequila and the production know-how, from agave and still to oak, age and proof, and work with you on everything around it: the name, the story, the bottle, the label and the approvals that get it to market.
You own the brand. We make the tequila.
Discuss a project
04 · Single-barrel editions, from scratch
Our reserve sells casks that are already aged. This works the other way round: you commission a cask before it is filled. Choose the oak, the toast, the entry proof and how long it rests. We fill it, look after it, send you samples along the way, and bottle it as a numbered edition carrying your name when it is ready.
Discuss a project
05 · Blanco production for brands
For brands that need a dependable blanco for a launch, a cocktail programme or a core range. We produce 100% agave blanco at our partner distillery to a specification agreed with you, and bottle it there, at origin, under your brand. Consistent batches, documented, ready for your importer.
Discuss a project
Get in touch
Every Special Project starts with a conversation. The contact form opens with Special Projects already chosen, and a person replies.