Jeff and I visited a small place a couple blocks down from our hotel for breakfast where I had huevos mexicanos – scrambled eggs with peppers, onions… and I really don’t know what else, but it was good. At the counter an older woman was making tortillas from scratch, rolling each piece of dough in a ball, placing it on a metal plate and squishing it down with a second metal plate.
Cofradia Tequila Distillery
La Cofradia tequila distillery
After breakfast we visited La Cofradia, a tequila distillery and boutique hotel. With its grand entrance I knew we were in for something that was going to ‘wow’ us, and it did. The scenery was beautiful, overlooking most of the town of Tequila, and the hotel rooms were just steps away from the distillery. Each room is decorated with a different theme, each with its own name. After interviewing the hotel director, Zack, Jeff and I stayed to tour the property and check it out from a visitor’s point of view.
We went into the distillery, as a guest would do on a tour, and viewed where the Cofradia tequila is distilled and fermented. It smelled so much of tequila, it was as if they had mopped the floors with it. The view was spectacular. The tequila was so strong.
We were given samples of Cofradia tequila, straight from the tanks.
Collecting website content
After having a full tour of the Cofradia property, we travelled back to the town center and stopped at another small hotel on our list for Project:Exposure, Casa Dulce Maria. My job this week is to collect all the content I possibly can to list these properties on the whl.travel site. Not only technical stuff like how many rooms there are, or if they provide you with soap and shampoo, but also what the establishment is doing for their community.
Casa Dulce Maria is a quaint precious hotel in downtown Tequila. It has a fountain, ivy covered walls, we’re staying there later this week so I’ll have an opportunity to interview the owners and really get a feel for their community involvement.
An evening with Palomas and Mexicans
The Mexican fun really started later in the evening. Zack, Jeff and I went in search of a bar we’d seen earlier. La Capilla is owned by a quiet, older gentleman. He was dressed in slacks and a collared shirt with a white sweater (a bit fancy compared to the rest of the attire worn in this small town). At the table next to the bar were three men and a 15-year-old boy talking and drinking tequila. I don’t think they knew I understood Spanish, because a few minutes later I heard them talking about the “white girl at the bar.” Danny, the 15-year-old, came over, put his elbow on the bar top and said with a twinkle in his eye, “Hi. Welcome to Tequila. Where are you from?” Of course Zack and Jeff cracked up as I made small talk while his dad and friends came over to talk to us.
El Grupo en La Capilla
Needless to say, the rest of the night was spent drinking Palomas (lime juice, tequila and Squirt – grapefruit soda), exchanging stories with the Charro champion of the 70’s complete with moustache and cowboy hat, laughing until our stomachs hurt.
Further Information:
- Bienvenidos a Tequila!
- Turning tourism into a social enterprise
- Tasting the Tequila trail
- WHL Consulting continues its work in World Heritage Sites with a focus on Tequila (whl.travel Blog)
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