Do you like to party? Do you like to drink? Do you like to drink tequila? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then today's blog post is for you! I'm going to be listing the most expensive tequilas in the world. Now, these are not your average $20 bottles of Jose Cuervo. These are rare, luxurious, and expensive tequila bottles that will cost you a few hundred bucks…or a few million. But if you're looking to party like the ultra-rich, these are the bottles for you! So gather your friends, get your wallets ready, and look at some of the most expensive tequilas in the world!
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1. Tequila Ley .925 Diamanté
Price: $3.5 million per bottle
Ley Diamante is, according to its manufacturers, the most expensive bottle of tequila in the world. The bottle's value is the driving factor behind the phenomenal price, but the Tequila itself is the same Tequila 925 you could pick up from a liquor store for $52.99.
So what makes the Ley Diamante bottle so expensive?
The bottle has two kilos of platinum and 4,100 white diamonds. With platinum metal prices being so high and the additional cost of perfectly white diamonds, this collectors edition bottle features a lot of bling.
You can find the bottle on ley925.com, but just so you're aware, if you hit “buy now,” they don't seem to have the bottle in stock if you're looking to get some premium tequila for the next dinner party.
This makes Tequila Ley .925 Diamanté the single most expensive tequila in the world and the only tequila to appear on the list of Most Expensive Bottles of Liquor in the World.
2. Tequila Ley .925 Ultra-Premium
Price: $3,500 to $225,000 a bottle
Tequila Ley .925 is so expensive it even holds the second spot on our list!
Tequila Ley released this bottle in 2006, and it was the most expensive bottle in the world until Diamante Tequila beat it in 2010.
The Platinum & White Gold Tequila bottle was sold by Tequila Ley .925 to a private collector in Mexico City, Mexico, on 20 July 2006.
The Guinness Book of Records still lists it as the most expensive bottle, but it is wrong and needs to be updated.
Tequila Ley commissioned Mexican artist Alejandro Gomez Oropeza to design three unique bottles resembling barbed seashells. The company released only 33 bottles of each design. A gold and silver bottle retailed for $25,000, while a Gold and Platinum bottle retailed for $150,000. The most expensive bottle, the white gold and platinum variety, retailed for $225,000.
As with Tequila Ley .925 Diamanté, the tequila in these exquisite containers is neither Añejo nor Extra-Añejo. This tequila is the Tequila Ley .925, which sells over the counter for $52.99 a bottle in liquor stores everywhere.
3. Clase Azul 15th Anniversary Edition
Price: $30,000 a bottle
The most expensive Clase Azul-branded tequila is their 15th Anniversary Edition bottle. Clase Azul released their 15th-anniversary edition tequila with a limited run of 15 uniquely designed bottles, priced at $30,000 each.
The bottle tells the story of Mexico through time with Mexican Designation of Origin pottery styles: Amber, Olinala, Talavera, and Tequila.
Clase Azul donated the $450,000 collected from the sale of the 15 commemorative bottles to the charitable organization Fundación con Causa Azul A.C.
This article best showcases the many different art styles in which the bottles were fashioned. Truly unique and incredibly diverse.
The founder of Clase Azul Arturo Lomeli admitted to reporter Katy Scott that the tequila he sold when he was getting started was “his first tequila was low-cost, “terrible” and packaged with a tacky sombrero and mustache.” But Lomeli returned to graduate school to get a degree in luxury marketing. Now his tequila is considered good, but his bottles are regarded as works of art.
4. AsomBroso Reserva Del Porto
Price: $2800 a bottle, sometimes on sale for $1499 a bottle
Connoisseurs of fine tequilas say that no special occasion is necessary to drink AsomBroso Reserva Del Porto. Drinking this brandy-like tequila is the occasion. Aged for ten years in barrels previously used to store port wine in Portugal, AsomBroso Reserva Del Porto is mixed with a small portion of tequila aged in white oak casks. The tequila is bottled in a crystal decanter modeled after a decanter found in an eighteenth-century Portuguese castle by distiller Ricardo Gamarra that took Italian artist Luciano Gambaro two years to duplicate. The decanter travels in a handmade cedar humidor.
5. Barrique de Ponciano Porfidio – $2000
Barrique de Porfidio costs $2000 for a single bottle of tequila. With only 2000 bottles of this tequila available each year, its exclusivity drives the price up relatively high. Another reason for the $2000 price is the bottle's value.
The artisan glass bottles stand 17 inches high and feature lettering and images written in 21-karat gold. The bottle's unique design draws attention to the tequila brand's incredible heritage.
Made from 100 percent agave, Barrique de Ponciano Porfidio has a clean taste undiluted by minerals or water supply contamination.
6. José Cuervo 250 Aniversario
Price: $2,179 a bottle
This Extra Añejo is both intense in flavor and warm in the mouth. Its nose announces the tequila with citrus, sherry, and smoke. The taste notes encompass butterscotch, chocolate, and vanilla with a smooth mouthfeel. It is modestly creamy and mild.
7. 1800 Colección Tequila
Price: $1800 a bottle
1800 Colección is a respected brand registered to the Beckmann family. Their premium 1800 Colección tequila is named after the year distillers started aging tequila in oak barrels 1800. This tequila is made from mature agave plants and allowed to rest in oak barrels. It is distilled twice during the ten-year aging process to give it a taste reminiscent of Amaretto but with much more of a kick.
1800 Colección is bottled in a Belgian crystal decanter trimmed in pewter and inside a luxurious case lined with suede.
8. Clase Azul Extra Añejo (Ultra)
Price: $1700 a bottle
Clase Azul Extra Añejo (Ultra) Tequila is produced in a limited edition of 100 bottles, half for the Mexican market and half for the U.S. market. Its strikingly red color comes from its ten-year aging process in oak barrels previously used for sherry. This tequila is bottled in crystal decanters trimmed in gold, silver, and platinum.
9. AsomBroso del Porto Extra Añejo
Price: $1551 a bottle
No tequila on this list is aged longer than AsomBroso del Porto Extra Añejo. First, it is rested in barrels of oak for 11 years. Then it is aged for another 11 years in barrels used for port winemaking in Portugal. Finally, it's bottled in a hand-blown Italian glass bottle reported to be a replica of an eighteenth-century decanter found in a European castle. This smooth, silky tequila pleases with hints of port and toffee. And if you purchase a bottle of this Extra Añejo from the AsomBroso website, they will throw in an almost-complementary bottle of their 11-year-old tequila for just $1.
10. Rey Sol Añejo Tequila
Price: $400 a bottle
This “King Sun Aged Tequila” comes in a distinctive, sun-shaped bottle. Distiller Tequila Rey Sol advertises this label as two pieces of art in one. Mexican artist Sergio Bustamante designed the unique decanter bottle. The six years of aging create an unusually mellow taste that is unrealized in brands rushed to bottling. The distiller credits the uniquely smooth flavor of their product to the spring waters in the highlands of Jalisco state mixed with the agave nectar and the precise process of baking the agave at 194° F for 48 hours. Rey Sol Añejo bursts with intense caramel, spice, and vanilla flavors. It finishes with a nutty taste that brings memories of almonds.
11. Tres-Quatro-Cinco Tequila
Price: $379 a bottle
Master blender Enrique Fonseca makes Tres-Cuatro-Cinco from a mélange of 30 percent tequila aged three years, 40 percent tequila aged four years, and 30 percent tequila aged five years. (Many sources claim that the blend is 30-40-50, but that is impossible since it adds to 120 percent.) This beautifully golden-brown tequila is bottled in crystal decanters.
12. Casa Herradura Seleccion Suprema Tequila
Price: $360 a bottle
Winner Gold Medal at the World Spirits Competition in San Francisco in 2012, this premium tequila has been in production since 1990 at the Casa Herradura, which has been making fine tequila since 1870. This $360 tequila has an aroma of rose petals, wood, and agave nectar and a creamy, soft finish.
Gran Patrón is a label many drinkers associate with expensive tequila, although maybe not this expensive. Gran Patrón Burdeos is distilled and aged in American and French oak barrels. Then it is distilled again and aged in casks used for vintage Bordeaux. The end-product is a richly flavored amber liqueur with notes ranging from raisin to wood to vanilla. It's delicious straight up and also a perfect ingredient for an old-fashioned.
13. Don Julio Real Tequila
Price: $350 a bottle
The most expensive Don Julio-branded Tequila is the Don Julio Real Tequila, for $350 a bottle. This Extra-Añejo tequila is aged in white oak barrels for three to five years.
It has a light spice, vanilla, and chocolate notes, with a minimal burn. At $350 a bottle, it is pricey but affordable for small sips on special occasions.
14. Gran Patrón Platinum Tequila
Price: $250 a bottle
Drinkers of Gran Patrón Platinum note that it goes down smooth and is unusually sweet without adding sugar. The sweetness of this tequila derives from the careful timing of the agave harvest. If the crop is harvested a little too soon or a little too late, the sugar content of the agave is much lower. The Gran Patrón Platinum bottles have a unique shape and are shipped in a maple wood box lined with velvet.
15. Trago Reposado Tequila
Price: $60 a bottle
This “rested” tequila is stored in American oak barrels for four months. Despite its short aging time, it has a smooth finish and is full of agave flavor. It is another popular “starter” premium tequila.
16. Clase Azul Reposado Tequila
Price: $58 a bottle
Clase Azul Reposado Tequila is rested in barrels for eight months. Each bottle is hand-blown in a small village in Mexico and is a collector's item.
17. Casamigos Reposado Tequila
Price: $50 a bottle
No list of the world's most expensive tequilas would be complete with the creation of George Clooney, Rande Gerber, and Mike Meldman's Casamigos Reposado Tequila. Aged seven months, this tequila has a silky feel and presents notes of oak, cocoa, and caramel. The makers of this “rested” tequila intend it to be a gentle introduction to sipping tequilas and a gateway to other premium, artisanal labels.
Honorable Mention & Updates
Patron en Lalique Serie 1
Price: $7,725
This collaboration between America's favorite tequila maker and the bespoke French crystal company Lalique has produced one of the most expensive bottles of tequila not housed in diamonds or 24-karat gold. Patron-only released 500 bottles of this limited edition series.
The tequila features beautiful golden color and a flavor profile highlighted by hints of vanilla, honey, and dried fruit.
1800 Colección Gary Baseman Edition
Price: $2000
This limited edition release only included 40 bottles, earning the tequila a hefty price tag of $2000 per bottle. The tequila comes with a unique decanter sculpted by famed artist Gary Baseman. Like most tequilas on the list, it is made with 100% pure agave.
Casa Dragones Joven
Price: $299
While this is nowhere near the most expensive bottle of tequila in the world, it is a premium tequila that may be more affordable for the average drinker. This small batch of tequila was named the “Tastemakers' Top Tequila by Forbes.
Don Julio 1942
Price: $200
Don Julio 1942 is one of the most expensive mainstream tequilas. The small batch of tequila is aged for a minimum of 2 and a half years, earning it the designation of extra Anejo tequila. Don Julio 1942 is undoubtedly a favorite of bar-goers celebrating a special event with a very expensive shot of tequila.
