Love Potion #9

Take your troubles down to Madame Ruth, or you can “Mix it up right here in the sink” yourself.  Cosmo fans will love the simplicity, and balanced flavor – not too tart and not too sweet.  This recipe allows fragrant and agave rich Voodoo Tiki Tequila Platinum Tequila to shine while the sugars, bitters and tart flavors merge to create a very easy to drink and tasty Valentine’s Day elixir.  Be careful!  These go down very easy.

2 oz Voodoo Tiki Tequila Platinum Tequila Tequila Silver
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1 oz Cranberry Juice
1/2 oz Raspberry Liqueur

To prepare, in a cocktail shaker with ice, add Voodoo Tiki Tequila Platinum Tequila, with all liquid ingredients.  Shake hard, breaking the ice in the shaker.  The shaker should turn frosty on the outside.  Set aside.

To decorate your glass, dip a martini glass in a shallow saucer of tequila, coating the top 1/8 inch lip of the glass.  Dip glass in sugar, colored sugar or pomegranate sugar creating a sugar rim.

Pour into a chilled cocktail glass, rimmed with sugar, colored sugar or pomegranate sugar.  Add a spear of fresh berries or lime wheel and serve.

Bed of Roses Lychee Mar-tiki

1.5 oz Voodoo Tiki Tequila Platinum Tequila Tequila Silver
1  oz Lychee Liqueur
1/2  oz Simple Syrup
1/2  oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice and strain into a martini glass to serve.  Float a rose petals on top.  To decorate your glass, dip a martini glass in a shallow saucer of tequila, coating the top 1/8 inch lip of the glass.  Dip glass in sugar, colored sugar or pomegranate sugar creating a sugar rim.

Love Goddess Mar-tiki

2 oz Voodoo Tiki Tequila Platinum Tequila Tequila Silver
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 oz Agave Nectar
2 Dashes Bitters
6 Fresh Red Berries (Such as Strawberries or raspberries)

Muddle the raspberries with the gin in the base of the shaker. Pour in the rest of the ingredients, add ice and shake. Strain into a martini glass to serve.

Freehold,NJ — 01/25/2012 — Voodoo Tiki Tequila, the company known for ultra-premium , 100% blue agave traditional & infused tequilas in hand blown glass bottles, has partnered with Shore Point Distributing Co., one of New Jersey’s premier beer, wine and spirits wholesalers since 1933. Shore Point distributes its world class line up of brands to 8 counties and over 2,100 accounts.
Chris McGowan, Public Relations, Media and Marketing Manager for Shore Point comments,

“Voodoo Tiki is a proud addition to Shore Point’s portfolio, further cementing its position as a source for world class products. Shore Point finds it a pleasure to work with such a passionate company.”

“Voodoo Tiki Tequila is beginning to enter its growth phase. We believe that Shore Point Distributing Co. and its team are a perfect fit for us” said Donna DeCunzo-Taddeo, President of Voodoo Tiki Tequila.

Following this strategic partnership, Voodoo Tiki Tequila looks poised and ready to increase their market share of the growing U.S. Tequila market. Tequila is one of the fastest growing spirits in the United States, with retail sales over $4.3 billion in 2010.

Aged in barrels carved from ancient and purportedly magical Voodoo Tikis. With a “Magic Word” on the back of every bottle, every bottle handmade, signed, numbered and glass etched – Voodoo Tiki Tequila has a lot of talking points, and that, coupled with a unique manufacturing process that results in the unique Voodoo Tiki taste is what drives the popularity.

Voodoo Tiki’s full line includes traditional tequilas Platinum, Reposado and Anejo as well as infused tequilas – Desert Rose Prickly Pear Infused, Blue Dragon Blue Raspberry and Kiwi Infused and Green Dragon Lime Infused.

The company also produces 1,000 bottles annually of an Extra Anejo, 3 year aged “Limited Edition” that comes packed in a hand carved tiki. The limited edition has sold out on pre-orders in each of the five years it has been offered.

Retailers interested in Voodoo Tiki Tequilas can call 1-Voodoo-Tiki ( 1-866-366-8454) to join the Voodoo Tiki Tequila Selective Retailers program.

A full array of Point of Sale materials is also available to retailers as allowed by law.

About Voodoo Tiki Tequila
Voodoo Tiki offers ultra-premium traditional & infused tequilas made from 100% Blue Agave. Voodoo Tiki Tequilas are sold exclusively in select restaurant, bar, nightclub and off premise locations through the company’s “Select Retailer” program. Retailers that would like to carry Voodoo Tiki Tequilas should call 1-Voodoo-Tiki (1-866-366-8454 ). Press inquiries should be directed to Press@VoodooTiki.com. Fans visit http://www.VoodooTiki.com to get your Free Official Voodoo Tiki Tequila necklace by mail.

About Shore Point Distributing Co.
Founded in 1933, Shore Point Distributing Co. is one of New Jersey’s largest beverage distribution companies, serving eight counties. Shore Point’s leading brands include Coors Brewing Company’s Coors Light, Crown Import products such as Corona and Modelo Especial and D.G. Yuengling & Sons Yuengling Lager . Shore Point distributes more than seven million cases of beer, wine and spirits per year and employs over 200 people. In the summer of 2008, Shore Point opened the doors and truck bays of a brand new,267,000 -square-foot facility in Freehold, N.J. In 2011, Shore Point went green, debuting its’ 1200-kilowatt rooftop solar/PV system on the roof of its’ facility. For more information visit www.shorepoint.com .

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Do You Know Why is it Called Tequila?

What is the origin of the name of Mexico’s most well-known drink? Just like the historical past of the margarita, and the mystical properties and reaction to the tequila itself, the answer is unquestionably clouded in mystery.

One record has the word tequila believed to derive from the indigenous group of ticuilas who some time past lived near the hillside of a volcano of the same name positioned close to the city of Tequila. The dead volcano Tetilla is located in the town of Tequila, nevertheless the name of the volcano predates the name of the town. Tequila, before it attained it’s widely recognized name was just a simple Pre-Hispanic town, located 34 miles northeast of Guadalajara. Currently it has a population of 30,000. The prominent hill of Tequila, the extinct volcano, is still known as the “Tetilla.” It has a height of three thousand meters.

Several belief patterns link the origin to the Nahautl language, though diverge from that point since there are three diverse translations of the tongue. Many enthusiasts maintain tequila comes from the ancient Nahautl translated to “the rock that cuts.” One group, cites the phrase to have the interpretation to be “The place of harvesting plants”. Yet other subscribers to the lost vocabulary principles have an additional possible language translation. They believe it implies “work” or “employment”, and the portion “Tlan”, means “Place”. Hence, tequila could translate to “Place in which labor or work is done”. So while there is popular opinion on the label originating from a lost language amongst these followers, the interpretation is still clouded in mystery.

Certainly many individuals are convinced the name of the liquor was extracted from the name of the town of Tequila in which it is created. Tequila’s namesake town is within the state of Jalisco where all manufacturing of tequila occurs. But there is disagreement in whether the name of the town predates the name of the spirit. The eldest, the Tequila-Amatitán vicinity that contains the Amatitán village, developed at the end of the seventeenth century. The 2nd district, the Jalisco Highlands, showed up in the last decade of the 19th century. The first tequila production process with a professional intent was started within the city of Tequila around the end of the Eighteenth century. The chief end users were in the mining zones found in the state of Jalisco. Almost all of Tequila’s thirty-five thousand inhabitants work in the distilleries, on the agave farms, or in the rising amount of tourist stores encouraging the industry. Tequila’s reliance on tequila production and trade extends back to the Spanish conquest.

In the deficiency of more significant specifics, the greater part of potential clients stand by tequila is given its name after the town of Tequila. Just like Cognac holds the name of the French town of its beginning. For most, the Town of Tequila has provided its title to Mexico’s most recognized spirit It has been claimed that the Tequila indigenous group of Amatitlan, Jalisco were the 1st to create the beverage we currently call Tequila.

In today’s times, the identity, “Tequila” is covered by the Mexican Law of Industrial Protection, and in compliance with the rulings released by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Tequila may only be made in 5 states of Mexico: Jalisco, Guanajuato, Nayarit, Tamaulipas and Michoacan.

Pink Raspberry Margarita, featuring Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Prickly Pear Infused Tequila featured on ShoesNBooze!

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Pink Raspberry margarita

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Prickly Pear Infused Tequila
• 1 oz Tequila Rose
• 1/2 oz Crème de Noyaux
• 1/2 oz Chambord
• 2 ½ oz cream
• dash of grenadine
• sugar for rimming
• fresh raspberries or strawberries for garnish

Preparation:

1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar.
2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into the prepared glass.

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I got Gummi Bears! I got Bottle Caps! I got Lemon Heads! I got Sour Patch Kids!

 . . .I got a rock.

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Remember the days of Fun Dips, Astro Pops, Wax Lips, Necco Wafers and the Pop Rocks that killed poor Mikey? (Relax, he’s actually still alive.)  Well, Halloween is here and if you say, “Trick or Treat” just right we’ll send you the  coolest margarita guide written since Freddie learned not to play with fire. For a limited time, Voodoo Tiki Tequila is giving party people the ultimate treat to go with their night of tricks – an advance copy of “100 Margaritas!” A PDF version of the book will be available for free download at their website until December 31st 2011.  The guide also shares some gorgeous and tasty rim ideas that transcend the traditional salted rim, such as chocolate dipped, Cinnamon, honey, frosting and even double dipped rims such as frosting with cookie crumbs or chocolate and coconut.  Full instructions and over 200 photos are included.  This is the ultimate margarita party guide.  100 Margaritas! features recipes for traditional tequila classics as well as wild new margarita recipes that might be completely unrecognizable to “Tequila Purists” (read tequila snobs).  Check out the amazing tequila cocktail versions of these classic candy favorites – and don’t miss the Carnival Cotton Candy Cocktail Recipe Available Here.  Get it now – (PS – If you have a slow internet connection give it some time to download).

Gummi Bears (also spelled as Gummy Bear)  originated in Germany, where the happy yet soon to be devoured bears are popularly called Gummibär. Hans Riegel Sr., a candy maker from Bonn, started the Haribo company in 1920. In 1922, he invented the Dancing Bear, a fruit-flavored gum made in the shape of a bear. The success of the Dancing Bear’s successor would later become Haribo’s world-famous Gold-Bears candy product in 1967.  Then another company, Trolli jumped on the gummy bandwagon in 1981 and was the first to introduce gummi worms in 1981.  The popularity has resulted in a cornucopia of items for Mixologists to build creative cocktails around such as rings, worms, frogs, snakes, hamburgers, cherries, sharks, penguins, hippos, lobsters, octopuses, apples, peaches, oranges, and even Ampelmännchen, Smurfs and spiders.

Haribo Gummi Bears (Our favorite) come in five flavors.   Raspberry (red), orange (orange), strawberry (green), pineapple (clear), and lemon (yellow).  Gummi Bears are insanely popular.  They are even one of the few types of candy to have been turned into a television show, and now an amazing party cocktail.

Gummi Bear Margarita

1.5 oz Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon Blue Raspberry and Kiwi Infused Tequila

1 oz Watermelon Pucker

.5 oz Triple Sec

1 oz Sour Mix

1 oz Cranberry Juice

Dash of Grenadine

Rim: Sugar or Cinnamon

Serve: Up Rocks Frozen

Garnish: Gummi Bears Mixed in the Glass.

Pictured: Highball Rocks

I know you’re here for some great margarita recipes, not an episode of “How It’s Made”, but gumballs have an interesting life before dying an awful death in the mouth of a sugar craving eight year old.  Flavored  gum is made into a long cylinder, cut into small cylinders, and  run through a specialized machine to form hollow balls. The gumballs are then stored for several hours below60 degrees to harden. Once hard, the gumballs are put into huge kettles where they are coated with a flavored and colored sucrose solution, similar to how jelly beans are coated. After several hours tossing in the machine, the coated balls are dried with hot air and rolled in beeswax or other wax. This final step helps make gumballs shiny and water-repellent, making them the perfect confection to be dispensed from a gumball machine.  Sadly, then it’s off to death row.  But if you’re a gumball, and you’re numbers up, drowning in this delicious Candy Cocktail is the death equivalent of a heart attack in bed ( . . .and not while sleeping.)

Pictured: Gumball Margarita On the Rocks

Gumball Margarita

1 oz Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon Blue Kiwi Infused Tequila

1 oz Apple Shakka

1 oz  Hypnotic Liqueur

4 oz White Cranberry Juice

Rim: Sugar

Serve: Up Rocks Frozen

Garnish: Gumballs Mixed in the Ice
What was with that weird looking living bottle cap with feet on the wrapper?  Currently by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand, Bottle Caps are tart tablet candies made to look like metal soda bottle caps in grape, cola, orange, root beer, and cherry flavors.  Cherry replaced the “Lemon Lime” flavor from the 80s packs.  Also today bottle caps are a bit smaller than old school – go figure, progress.   Bottle Caps have a sweet but slightly sour taste to them, coincidentally like the classic Margarita, which makes  this the perfect candy compliment in this retro fun Candy Bar Cocktail.

A box of Bottle Caps can be found in the Survival Horror video game Dino Crisis by checking Regina’s lighter 50 times. This will produce a “kill me” which will transform into a box of Bottle Caps an hour later.

A shooter known as the “Bottle Cap”, which tastes similar to the candy, can be made using lime juice, citrus soda, root beer Schnapps, and raspberry liqueur or Amaretto. The liqueurs are combined in a shot glass, which is then dropped into a larger glass containing the soda and lime juice. The entire concoction is then drunk together.

Bottle Cap Margarita

1 oz Voodoo Tiki Green Dragon Mandarin Lime Infused Tequila

1 oz Grape Liqueur or Grape Schnapps

1 oz  Hypnotic Liqueur

3 oz White Cranberry Juice

Rim: Sugar

Serve: Up Rocks Frozen

Garnish: Bottle Caps Mixed in the Ice

Pictured: Margarita Glass On the Rocks

Jolly Rancher Margarita

Today a fully integrated brand of candy, including gummies, fruit chews, jellybeans, lollipops, and sodas, however we remember then for what they were and will forever be – the hard candy that could be bought for two cents apiece.  Jolly Rancher is currently owned by Hershey. The product was originally produced by the Jolly Rancher Company, founded in 1949 by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen of Golden, Colorado. The name is meant to suggest western hospitality.  Mix one up partner.

Jolly Rancher Margarita

1 oz Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon Blue Raspberry and  Kiwi Infused Tequila

1 oz Peach Schnapps

1 oz Sour Apple Pucker

2 1/2 oz Cranberry Juice

Rim: Sugar

Serve: Up Rocks Frozen

Garnish: Assorted Jolly Ranchers Mixed in the Glass

Pictured: Highball Rocks

Whatchamacallit Mar-Tiki

The Whatchamacallit, by The Hershey Company. This candy bar was first introduced in 1978 with a peanut-flavored crisp, layer of caramel and a layer of milk chocolate coating. In the late 80s, a commercial was created in a New Wave style referring to the bar in various ways to say “whatchamacallit”, including names that had been made-up, such as “wowzamadoo”. Hershey’s Whatchamacallit is found in recipes for various food items including pies, cookies, cheesecakes, cupcakes, and of course…

 Whatcha’Macallit Mar-Tiki

Swirl Glass with Chocolate Syrup

1 oz Voodoo Tiki Reposado Ultimo Tequila

1 oz Godiva Chocolate Liqueur

1/2 oz Frangelico

2 oz Half & Half

1 oz Cola

Rim: Chocolate Syrup

Serve: Up Rocks Frozen

Garnish:  Candy Bar Slice.

Pictured: Up

And of course don’t forget to check out the Desert Rose Prickly Pear Margarita and the Blue Raspberry Kiwi Margarit or the Carnival Cotton Candy Cocktail

The limited “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) edition of the 2012 Voodoo Tiki Tequila Coleccion Privada de la Familia, Extra Anejo is now available for preorder.

Standing over 2 feet tall, the Voodoo Tiki Tequila Coleccion Privada de la Familia Extra Anejo is packaged in an authentic, real wood, hand carved Voodoo Tiki.  Limited to 1,000 signed and numbered collections, the “Day of the Dead” edition is hand painted with images of Mayan art, and interplanetary scenes depicting what many believe is the coming 2012 Doomsday.  The front Voodoo Tiki face is painted in classic Dia de los Muertos, “Sugar Skull” fashion paying tribute to loved ones lost.  Various symbols, concepts and designs have been incorporated into each unit making each package as unique as the lucky owner for which it was painstakingly created.

Inside the artisan package, tequila aficionados will discover one liter of small batch, craft, single barrel Voodoo Tiki Extra Anejo Tequila.  Voodoo Tiki aged Tequila is aged to taste, never color or time and features notes of sweet agave, vanilla, caramel, butterscotch, dark chocolate, and brandy, without the heat, burn or rough finish which is synonymous with other tequilas.  The bottle is handmade Mexican bubble glass and features deep etched glass on the front, and an official Voodoo Tiki “Magic Word” on the back.  Each bottle is also is crafted to feature a solid glass Voodoo Tiki Idol inside.  Completing the package, each bottle is hand painted with 24 karat gold lettering.

The “Day of the Dead” is celebrated each year in Mexico.  This day is a tribute to adults who have passed, when the souls of the dead join in celebration.  Symbolic to these celebrations are the gifts and offerings or “ofrendas” dedicated to the deceased. Gifts included in the limited “Dia de los Muertos” edition of the 2012 Voodoo Tiki Tequila Coleccion Privada de la Familia, Extra Anejo include four Voodoo Tiki shot glasses and randomly inserted “Dia de Los Muertos” surprises.

The “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) edition of the 2012 Voodoo Tiki Tequila Coleccion Privada de la Familia, Extra Anejo marks the fifth year Voodoo Tiki has offered such an esteemed and limited product to fans.  All previous editions were sold out, with each successive offering sold out quicker than the previous.  Prices of previous editions bring multiples of the original MSRP on the collectors market.  A complete history of all five editions is available at the Voodoo Tiki Tequila website.

To ensure availability of very limited production Voodoo Tiki tequila, the company adds only 300 new retailers each year to their Selective Retailers program.  Interested retailers and tequila fans should call 1-Voodoo-Tiki (1-866-366-8454) to reserve delivery.  Allocations will occur, so prepare your reservation early.

The 2012 Voodoo Tiki Tequila Coleccion Privada de la Familia, Extra Anejo will be shipped to Select Retailers in Fall of 2011.  Photos are available at the Voodoo Tiki Tequila website.

For the complete history of the Coleccion Privada de la Familia Click Here

Would the Real Most Common Barrel Please Stand Up

The most common barrel used for aging anejo tequila is usually an American oak whiskey barrel, with casks via whiskey companies generating anejo tequila on a regular basis. The wood imparts a smoothness to the tequila, and also infusing the anejo tequila together with the wood oils. These interact with the anejo tequila to produce different flavors and choices beyond the customary agave.

American oak barrels, a Voodoo Tiki Tequila favorite, usually turn out the sweetest final result. Together with the sweetness of highland agave hints of vanilla, butterscotch, and caramel will be noticed. The sweetness of American oak sometimes yields a complex and outstanding mix of results. Evidently one of the best regarded and popularly accepted selections for maturing anejo tequila.

Are all tequila drums French or American?No, Canadian oak barrels are utilized far more often every year. Corazon tequila famously advertises their utilization of Canadian casks. The Canadian oak is most commonly a Canadian whiskey barrel, and conveys the anejo tequila a golden brownish color, and features a mild sweetness and earthy nose. Depending upon the agave quality, an anejo tequila aged in Canadian whiskey barrels will deliver anejo tequila nominal scents of fruit and spice, and flavors of differing levels of mellow sweetness and soft fruits, floral, as well as light vanillas.

Voodoo Tiki’s President Donna Decunzo-Taddeo was featured in the June 2009 edition of Entrepreneur Magazine where she discussed the importance of being an ultra high quality product if you want to compete with huge multinational corporations in the feature article entitled,  “When Second Really is Best.”

Read the whole article as it appears in the print edition below.

Hello Massachusetts!  Our newest Voodoo Tiki Destination.

We’ve just been notified that Voodoo Tiki Tequila, and some of our gourmet cocktails have been spotted by a Voodoo Tiki Tribe Member on the lifestyle and entertainment magazine, The Pulse.

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