Cierto Tequila Wins Eight Medals at the 2025 L.A. Spirits Awards
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Elevated Spirits Company is pleased to announce that Cierto Tequila received eight (8) medals, including two (2) Platinum medals and one (1) Gold medal, at the 2025 L.A. Spirits Awards (LASA) – the most of any tequila brand in the competition.
The brand's continued success with L.A. Spirits Awards and its panel of the beverage industry's top opinion leaders reflects a rapidly growing appreciation and advocacy for Cierto's award-winning, additive-free True tequila. Painstakingly handcrafted by multigenerational Master Distillers Enrique Fonseca and Sergio Mendoza with fully mature, estate-grown agave, Cierto's exquisite taste and authenticity remain unmatched. With these new honors, Cierto has won one thousand one hundred ten (1,110) international medals and awards.
About Cierto Tequila and Elevated Spirits Company
The Elevated Spirits Company is the producer of Cierto Tequila – authentic, 100% natural, additive-free, luxury tequila made in Jalisco, Mexico. Cierto means 'True,' the perfect word to describe this remarkable award-winning family of tequilas – patiently crafted expressions of pure Highlands agave, harvested by fourth and fifth generation agaveros at peak maturity. The Elevated Spirits portfolio includes the Cierto Private Collection Blanco, Reposado, Añejo and Extra Añejo, as well as the Cierto Reserve Collection Blanco, Reposado, Añejo and Extra Añejo. Due to their character, complexity and luxuriously smooth taste, these eight agave expressions are widely acknowledged by tequila connoisseurs as 'The World's Finest Tequila' and some of the best tequilas ever made. Cierto recently became the first tequila brand to surpass 1,100 international medals and awards, making it 'The Most Awarded Tequila in History.'
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About L.A. Spirits Awards (LASA)
L.A. Spirits Awards was conceived in 2019 by Nicolette Teo and Joel Blum, veterans of the competition business, who realized the need for a new competition paradigm – one that judges spirits quality from the perspective of a new, fresh and diverse generation of experts that reflects the look of the contemporary spirits industry.
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