May 19, 2026
Cinco de Mayo best tequilas: Our look at buttery blancos and cheap wonders
Cinco de Mayo is a wonderful excuse to get re-acquainted with tequila or, if the two of you are already intimately familiar, branch out into something new.
Cinco de Mayo is a wonderful excuse to get re-acquainted with tequila or, if the two of you are already intimately familiar, branch out into something new.
I wasn’t a tequila guy through my 20s (that’s on you, hastily downed shots of Pepe Lopez which, naturally, did not stay down), but growing from cheap plastic bottles to properly crafted spirits changed that. While I’m still a relative newcomer to the field, working at FTW has given me the chance to expand my scope greatly — particularly to brands and types I probably wouldn’t have tried in the past.
And there were a lot of those this year. Let’s talk about the good (and a little bit about the mediocre) I drank over the last year and see if we can’t help you figure out your boozing plans for the holiday. Here’s FTW’s Cinco de Mayo tequila guide, part two.